AN: This chapter is kind of a monster! Thank you to everyone who reviewed! I loved hearing what you thought. I will try to update about once a week but most of the chapters won't be nearly as long as this. This chapter would have been up sooner but my Mock Trial team was at State this weekend so I was a bit busy. Thanks for reading, please review!

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I closed the folder in front of my and rubbed my eyes. I had spent the last two hours reading through all of the paperwork that had been delivered to my room after the doctors were done testing me. The stack had barely shrunk as I read but I felt like my brain was going to explode soon with all of the information I had absorbed.

I picked up the next six inches of files and moved from the desk to my bed. As I flopped onto the bed, I heard a knock on my door. I rolled over groaning slightly and answered the door. Adysin stood outside with a twelve pack of soda and a bowl of popcorn with boxes of candy sticking out of it.

She smiled at me and held up the items, "I don't know about you, but I'm super bored. I thought maybe we could hang out and read the files together and talk…"

I thought for a moment and then opened the door farther, smiling at the girl. Adysin came in and we both sat on my bed.

"So, how do you know Sam and the rest of them?" I asked her.

She smiled as she opened a soda, "Sam and Jack are Aiden's godparents. Cam, Teal'c, and Sam are mine. Our parents work with them."

I nodded and we both looked at the pile of files sitting in my room. It was a daunting task but I figured having someone else here would make it more fun.

"I've read the first twelve files," Adysin said. "Should we split the rest between the two of us?"

I walked over and grabbed the rest of them from my desk and handed her half. "Um… I kind of want to read the one about my dad…" I said slowly.

Adysin grinned at me. "Oh good! I was hoping you'd say that because I really want to read the ones on my parents too!"

We both started reading in silence. Every so often, one of us would find something interesting in one of the files and share it with the other. But for the most part we sat in companionable silence. I looked at the name on the next folder in my pile: "Daniel Jackson."

"Hey, Adysin?" I asked her. She looked up from her own reading. "Is your dad Daniel Jackson? Because I have his file here…"

Adysin gingerly took the file from my hands and opened it. She began reading and I grabbed the next file in my stack.

It was my dad's.

I suddenly understood why Adysin had hesitated before taking the file on her dad. Did I really want to know what this said? Maybe it would answer all of my questions and maybe not… What if it only made me feel worse about my dad and his relationship to me? But beneath all of my worries, one thing was clear: I had to know.

I opened the folder and began reading.

NAME: John Patrick Sheppard

RACE: Human (Tau'ri)

RANK: Lieutenant Colonel

FAMILY: Patrick Sheppard-Father

Annabelle Sheppard-Mother

Dave Sheppard-Brother

Nancy Sheppard-Wife, Divorced, Deceased

Eleyna Sheppard-Daughter

Teyla Emmagan-Wife

Torren Emmagan-Stepson

Kiara Sheppard-Daughter

Max Sheppard-Son

Matthew Sheppard-Son

Taylor Sheppard-Daughter

My mouth suddenly went dry and my heard sped up. Teyla Emmagan? Wife? I wondered. Kiara, Max, Matthew, Taylor?

"My dad is married?" I asked incredulously.

Adysin looked up from her reading and gave me a questioning look.

I stared at the folder for a moment. "Apparently," I said slowly. "My father is married to someone other than my mother…and he never told me. He also failed to mention my four siblings and stepbrother…"

Adysin looked as shocked as I felt, "Well if it makes you feel any better my dad has died eight times and Ascended twice..."

I shook smiling my head and continued reading. What else was my dad hiding from me?

Adysin suddenly gasped and I turned to look at her. She was chewing on her lip and was frowning slightly. I gave her an inquiring look.

"My parents met when my mom hijacked the ship my dad was traveling to Atlantis on…" she said.

"Hijacked?" I asked incredulously.

Adysin nodded. "The better question is why my mother was in space, hijacking ships when she wasn't a member of the Stargate program…" she mused. "We should find her file!"

"What's her name? And if you see a file on Teyla Emmagan you could you pass it to me please?" I asked, realizing I didn't actually know.

"Vala Mal Doran."

We both began sorting through our remaining piles.

"Got it!" she crowed triumphantly. I was holding the file on Teyla Emmagan and she was holding her mom's.

Adysin opened the file and began scanning it really quickly. Her eyes widened as she read and I watched her intently. I'll admit that part of why I was paying attention to Adysin was because I was afraid of what the file would tell me about my dad's new wife.

"My mom is an alien," Adysin stated.

I looked at her blankly. What could I say to that?

She turned away from me and kept reading the files on her parents.

I opened the file on my stepmother and begin reading. She was an alien and had been helping the Atlantis team since they first met. From everything her file said, she sounded like a decent person. I was just pissed that my dad never felt like he should maybe tell me he was married.

After finishing the files on my dad and Teyla as well as the rest of the Atlantis team, I threw them on the floor.

I stood up from my bed and stretched, "I quit."

Adysin laughed and stood up with me. "Me too," she said.

I looked at the clock, "It's only ten…we could hang out for a while if you wanted…"

She nodded vigorously and we spent the next couple hours talking about our childhoods.

I woke up the next morning to relentless knocking. "Miss Sheppard," a deep voice called through my door. I vaguely recognized it as Teal'c's. "It is time for you to awaken."

I groaned and rolled out of my bed. It was far too early to be waking up, especially after staying up until one in the morning talking to Adysin. I quickly threw on a set of clothes I found in one of the drawers in my room. It was a blue jumpsuit thing and a white t-shirt underneath. My long black hair was thrown up into a bun. I didn't have any makeup and I quite honestly didn't feel like wearing it anyway.

I opened the door to find the Jaffa standing in front of it. He nodded at me and I followed him through the halls of the base under Cheyenne Mountain. I was tempted to question him about his time serving and fighting against the Goa'uld but decided that I had other things to worry about.

We walked into the infirmary and I found myself face to face with an attractive young doctor. She introduced herself as Carolyn Lam and proceeded to take my blood pressure and pulse again.

"Didn't you do this yesterday?" I asked her, gesturing at the blood pressure cuff she brought towards me.

Dr. Lam nodded, "It's just to make sure everything is consistent. I also have your test results from yesterday."

I looked at her questioningly.

Dr. Lam gave me a small smile, "Like your father, you have the Ancient Technology Activation Gene. You are also in perfect health."

"I have the Gene? What does that mean for me?" I asked her.

"It simply means that you can activate Ancient technology. It most likely means that you will be trained how to fly Puddle Jumpers and they will make sure you know how to operate a few other types of technology," Dr. Lam explained.

"Do Adysin and Aiden have the Gene too?"

"Aiden does," she said. "He will be trained with you to pilot a Jumper and we'll see what happens from there."

I nodded and Teal'c gestured for me to follow him. I found myself in a training room with Adysin and Aiden waiting. Adysin smiled at me as I walked in and I grinned at her. She looked a bit nervous and I remembered what she told me about last night. Adysin had never been interested in learning how to fight. She was terrified of what Stargate Command expected her to learn.

Colonel Mitchell walked into the room and faced us. "Cadet Jackson!" he barked and Aiden snapped to attention. "You have had training in hand-to-hand combat, correct?"

"Sir yes sir!" Aiden responded.

I bit the inside of my cheek to keep from laughing. I could hardly believe that Aiden had actually responded like that. It seemed like something out of a movie. Then again, I was about to go to a different galaxy to save my dad…

Colonel Mitchell had turned to me, "And what about you, Miss Sheppard?"

"I've been taking Taekwondo and Karate since I was five. And I know fencing, a bit of archery, and stick fighting…" I said.

He turned to Adysin, "Which leave you, Adysin, who has had no training?"

Adysin nodded solemnly.

"Have any of you ever used a gun?" Colonel Mitchell asked.

Aiden nodded once while both Adysin and I shook our heads no. The Colonel nodded and looked thoughtful for a moment. "Okay kids," he said. "Aiden and Eleyna will go to learn how to pilot Puddle Jumpers while I teach Adysin some fighting skills. We'll reconvene later and I'll give you guys a lesson in shooting. You probably won't need too much direction."

Aiden and I walked out together and, following Colonel Mitchell's directions, found ourselves once again in the conference room from the day before (I remembered it was called a briefing room from the files I read last night).

After a few minutes General O'Neil came in and gestured for us to follow. We walked out of the complex and to a helicopter. It turns out that we were flying to Area 51 where we would learn the basics of flying Puddle Jumpers.

We learned the basics quickly and were soon able to fly the Jumpers easily. General O'Neill called in Sam to help decide how to chose whom the main pilot would be. The original plan was that Aiden would be team leader (because of his military training) and if he had the gene, pilot as well. But apparently I was a natural flyer like my dad.

After a few hours, it was decided that we would race, from Earth to Jupiter and back. There would be certain challenges we had to overcome during the race. The first person to return with the least amount of damage would be the winner. We sat in our respective Puddle Jumpers in the hanger at Area 51. We were supposed to keep in radio contact with the SGC at all times and we also had a way to communicate with each other.

The hanger doors opened and Sam's voice crackled over the radios into my Jumper, "Pilots, ready, on my mark, three, two, one, mark."

We soared out of the hanger and into the open air. As we began to climb I let out a whoop. It was incredible the view I had. And the ship responded to every thought I had. We both reached the moon in only a half hour. The flying had been particularly difficult to that point and I was staring to get bored. Then Aiden started the trash talk.

We were neck and neck as we rocketed towards the asteroid belt. Aiden started talking to me over the radio trying to psyche me out, "So, Princess, how long do you think you'll last in this race?"

I got really mad really fast, "PRINCESS? Where the hell did that come from? And you know what, I am going to kick your ass in this race."

Aidan laughed knowing he had succeeded in pissing me off, "Well, you come waltzing into the building as if you own the place and the way you talk reminds me of a princess. Anyway I think it's fitting…"

I was livid, "Well, that's your problem, because I assure I am the very opposite of a princess."

"Whatever you say baby… You know, after this race we should go out to dinner…" It was clear to me from what Adysin had said and his tone that Aiden was used to girls fawning over him and always saying yes.

"Or not," I suggested and suddenly shot ahead. I had been holding back the whole race on him. We had been told the Puddle Jumper had the ability to go faster than we were using them but I knew Aiden didn't think that anyone had the mental capacity to control the fastest speed.

I was going to win this at all costs. It didn't matter if I damaged the Jumper a bit; I just had to get back first. I whizzed past Mars laughing, He is never going to catch up to me!'\

Down in the SGC Adysin and Sam were monitoring the conversation between Eleyna and Aidan. Adysin kept laughing when she heard her brother getting verbally abused and turned down by Eleyna. Her brother always had it easy with girl she was glad Eleyna wasn't giving in right away.

Jack was looking at a screen with a map of the Solar System. It had the Puddle Jumper's positions along with the other ships in the area. One thing that the contestants of the race had not been informed of was the Goa'uld Hatak vessels that were manned by Jaffa allies. They were supposed to shoot at the Jumpers to help gauge how well the pilots did under pressure. He watched as one of the Puddle Jumpers accelerated to dangerous speeds. He radioed over to Sam and asked her to make contact with the Jumpers.

Sam picked up the radio and called the Jumpers, "Hey guys, how is it going up there? Who's in the lead?"

Aidan was the first to respond through gritted teeth, "Eleyna's winning."

Sam nodded, "Eleyna, are you listening to this?"

Eleyna's voice appeared over the radio, "Yes, what's up?"

Adysin fielded that question, "Jack's worried about how fast you're going. It seems that you have exceeded the maximum speed the Jumpers have been tested at."

"Well, I'm trying to win this race and I needed a bit more speed."

"Are you sure you're in control?"

"Hell yes, this ship is awesome! And nearly impossible to lose control of!" Eleyna replied energetically.

Aidan poured the speed on. He still wasn't going as fast as I was but he was getting closer. I could see him gaining on me in the scanner. Ahead of me was the asteroid belt. I noticed four irregular forms in the scanner, they looked like ships. Aiden's voice crackled over the radio, "Princess, I don't know if you've got your scanner on but I'm reading four ships in front of you…"

"I see them and enough with the Princess thing… Holy crap!"

"What's going on?" he asked.

"Those ships just started firing at me! I got out of range but the only way to get to the belt is to go straight through them."

I sat just out of range of the ships. They were Goa'uld but I knew the System Lords had been defeated so it must be Jaffa piloting them. Something told me this was part of the race and that I needed to get around them as quickly as possible.

I remembered that Puddle Jumpers could be cloaked when they were in use and I mentally willed my ship to turn invisible. But turning invisible after my enemy had seen me only did so much good. A few of the ships fired at my last position blind, reminding me that there was still as chance I could be hit.

I slowly began to weave my way through the asteroid field. I wasn't too certain about how accurate Hatak sensors were and I was afraid that the ships would start firing at me soon.

Aiden caught up to me and passed me, nearly killing himself in the process. He had decided the best course of action was to fly through the rocks at breakneck speed and hope he didn't get shot or run into an asteroid. I thought he was an idiot. He scraped against a massive rock and one point and took a hit to his left side too.

Outside of the asteroid belt, I poured on the speed again and jumped into the lead. I could see Jupiter. I quickly slingshot around Jupiter and headed back towards the asteroid field. This time I turned invisible before I got to the field. I was tempted to stay that way for the rest of the race, but I knew that it was using power and it wasn't a smart way to fly.

I watched my scanners as Aiden copied me and turned invisible to go through the asteroids and ships. But he lost focus halfway through and reappeared on my scanner. I watched as the Hatak vessels fired at him again and again.

I passed Mars, then the Moon, and was reentering the atmosphere by the time Aiden managed to limp around Mars. It was clear his ship was damaged. "Hey Aiden," I said into the radio. "How's it going back there?

I swear I could hear his glare as he replied, "Wonderfully…" I laughed and landed in Area 51. My ship didn't have a single scratch on it.

As we had started our return, the SGC team had flown to Area 51 and was waiting at the landing site.

I got out of my Jumper and stretched. That hadn't been nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I walked over to where Adysin stood and struck up a conversation with her. We were able to fill each other in on what our days had looked like before Aiden turned up twenty minutes after I did. His ship had a scrape across the back edge and had multiple black scorch marks.

I let out a low whistle as he stepped out and he sent me a glare. I covered my mouth with my hand to hide my smile. It was wrong, but I took savage pleasure in kicking his ass in that race.

General O'Neill walked over and began examining the ships. Sam joined him after a few minutes and they began talking quietly. Finally they returned to us. Sam gave me a small smile.

General O'Neill stuck his hands in his pockets, "Well, obviously Eleyna is going to be the pilot since she won the race…However, it might be best if you drive a little slower…"

I laughed and nodded. Flying had given me quite a rush and I was dying to do it again.

We returned to the SGC and Colonel Mitchell gave us a quick lesson on shooting. We learned how to fire Zat'Nik'Tels, P90s, and pistols. It was actually pretty easy after a few shots. The Colonel then dismissed us and I crawled in my bed gratefully. Today had been insane and I knew tomorrow would be even crazier. We were going to Atlantis.

AN: Sorry the end was a bit rushed but I needed to end the chapter after their training and it was super long already. Thanks so much for reading! Please feel free to leave me a review!