SGU s04 e14
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Eli sat beside Ginn, holding their sleeping baby daughter in his arms. He spoke in a whisper to her, "Hello beautiful girl, I'm your daddy and I love you." Ginn watched on as a single tear escaped from the corner of Eli's proud and loving eye.
Ginn placed her hand on his arm and lent over slightly, saying quietly, "Hello my little lady, I'm your mommy..." she looked at Eli with the most blissful expression, "I love you too, both of you!"
Tamara came over to Ginn's bed in the infirmary. She was in her uniform and glad to be standing near the newest addition to Destiny, but her focus was elsewhere. "How are you feeling Ginn?" she asked.
Ginn was still smiling, but she was also in pain. "How can I be anything but happy..." she nodded and conceded, "Yes, I am feeling pain"
Tamara held Ginn's hand. "You had all of us scared there for a while...none more than the man beside you..." she motioned to Eli. "You are under strict orders to rest for at least the next few days, no exceptions!" TJ still had a smile, but her serious concern for Ginn was plainly evident.
Eli looked over to Tamara, "I don't know how to thank you guys enough...for saving both of them." He held his tears back so as not to disturb the joyful little bundle in his arms.
Tamara struggled to hide her emotions, but knew she was in charge and had to regardless. "Uterine rupture is very rare and only affects about 1 in every 8,500 in developed countries. We are not sure why it happened, considering how your body came to be. There may have been a genetic fault somewhere that caused a weakness and as your baby moved it stressed that weakness. You gave all of us quite a fright!" she tried to play down the seriousness of what happened.
Ginn nodded, realizing how close they came to disaster, but she could see something else behind Tamara's eyes. "What...what is it TJ...?"
Tamara hated giving good people bad news, but she wanted to be the one who told her. "Amanda and I..." she held her nerve, "We tried everything we could..."
Ginn and Eli said at the same time, "But what?!"
TJ rubbed her tears back, "But we couldn't save your uterus. I am sooo sorry Ginn..." Tamara struggled to tell her.
From the happiness of the wedding reception, it seemed a world away to Eli and Ginn now. Tamara, Amanda, Varro, and Camille, along with Destiny's help from her massive medical databanks, had performed a miracle to save both the life of Ginn and her baby. Poor Eli could do nothing but watch as the team worked diligently to deliver their baby by caesarean section, before being able to repair the rupture and save Ginn. Now the news that Ginn would never be able to carry another child was just heartache to contend with but life was more important.
Ginn grabbed hold of Tamara's hand and squeezed it gently. "Hey...we are alive, and it is all thanks to you guys! If that's the price for saving us, then so be it." Tamara looked into her compassionate eyes. "Look at her TJ, she is so beautiful...you did that! You gave her to us, and gave her a mommy. Don't you ever feel sorry about that." Ginn would have hugged her, but she had to stay still and let the healing belt around her do its job.
Although Eli was at first devastated by the news, holding his new born daughter in his arms made it pale into insignificant. She was here, healthy, and so was the love of his life...they were a family now, and he knew that their strength together would get them through anything life was to throw at them.
Eli carefully stood up and walked around the bed to Tamara. "Would you like to hold her TJ?" he asked kindly.
Flashes of her own past roared back into Tamara's mind, but the overwhelming desire to nurture won her over. "Oh Eli... yes, yes I would!" she stated proudly.
As Eli handed the precious package over to her he said, "No matter what happened or what is to be, this is the only thing that counts, right here, right now..."
Tamara nodded her heartfelt understanding as she took hold of their young daughter and cradled her. "Hello little cutie, does mommy and daddy have a name for you yet?"
Ginn looked to Eli who just shrugged his shoulders before saying, "We have a few ideas, but one stands out, doesn't it Eli?" She smiled at him.
Eli didn't say anything instead he looked deep into Ginn's eyes and without asking in voice, waited for her okay. She nodded to, him happy in the reason known only unto them.
"Lala" he said to Tamara, and with that, the little one opened her ocean blue eyes and gave a big yawn.
TJ's heart just melted with the love that one feels for their child as Lala gave a quick smile before breaking into a hungry cry. "Ohh, do we need mommy now?" she said in baby talk. She handed Lala over to Ginn for a feeding.
Her crying stopped as she began to feed and even though Ginn was in pain, nothing was going to come between her and Lala...ever! It wasn't long before people came in to see them, with Everett and Te'arly the first official visitors.
The warmth and love that surrounded everyone there was a reminder that they had become a family regardless of anyone's origin. Everett felt like a proud father would toward Eli and Ginn, looking at their daughter...but in this near timeless moment, he felt something else...
He felt someone else!
Castell cut through his mind like a fighter plane roaring overhead. "Everett! Hear me!" he cried.
Everett fell forward to Ginn's bed, thrusting his hands out to stop from falling. Eli caught him as he rocked forward. "Ahh!" he cried, "Castell where are you?" he said aloud, his face grimacing. Flashes of galaxies stormed through Everett's mind as Castell broke free of the Ori's controlling grip until one stayed in focus just long enough for Everett to take notice. A moment later, another flash of a solar system with two distinct blue worlds from the same galaxy, then it was gone. Everett slumped to the floor, dazed and confused... "I know where he is!" he murmured and passed out.
Half an hour later, TJ brought Everett around with the aid of some strong-smelling alien potions Varro had made. His first reaction was to say, "I gotta get to the bridge, I know where he is..." He tried to get up, but couldn't even lift his arms.
TJ and Varro calmed him down with Tamara saying abruptly, "Sir, I need you to lay here, I don't know what has happened, but your stats are spiking. Your blood pressure is way over 200 and you're on the verge of having a stroke...you're no good to him dead. Let's get you calmed down first and then we will get this sorted out."
Varro gave him an injection to slow his body down from the state of shock he was in as TJ called for Amanda urgently.
Amanda arrived and administered a strong sedative to relax his body. "Everett, I have given something to relax you. Whatever has happened, the connection between you has drained nearly all of your energy reserves. Your body was staring to shut down vital organs...as though you had been badly physically wounded. Only time will restore your energy levels..."
Everett struggled to put words together, "He...needs...help...now..."
Amanda could understand, but he needed to regain his strength and it would take time. "And help he will get, but you have to be alive to give it! Look at it this way, the connection drained your life force immensely... Think of it as like being fed on by a Wraith, except that you didn't age. It's going to take some time to get that back, but you should return to full health soon. Now rest General!" she commanded.
Matt didn't get much of a honeymoon, nor did Chloe for that matter. Patricia had decided to stay onboard for a while longer to see her daughter in action but hopefully not dangerous action. With Everett off his feet for a few days, Matt took his place as Captain of ''Destiny''. They had alerted Apollo 2011 and in turn Cameron had contacted Telford with the details. With Ginn still in bed, Eli was in high demand as a father first, then as Everett's proxy until he regained his strength. Nick and Eli set up a holoscreen above Everett's bed in the infirmary with a direct link to the Valeyian Databank and Destiny's memory so he could search for a matching picture to the vision he saw.
He spent hours scanning through different images and live stills taken by other IGA ships that were then fed straight to Destiny via subspace link. His frustration was growing by the minute and not being able to move much didn't help anything either.
Finally he threw the controller in disgust at his own predicament. Lucky for Everett, he was on his own after Ginn had moved to rest back in her and Eli's own quarters. Everett rubbed his eyes feeling so tired, and then felt the controller placed beside him.
"What the fuck...?" he said startled, refocusing his tired eyes.
"I'll let that profanity side my darling Everett, sorry to startle you," said Lady Destiny.
"Is that really you, or the ship?" he asked still slightly groggy.
She reached out and rubbed his hair back off his forehead, "It is me my Darling... I am so sorry that this has happened to you, but believe me...he didn't have much choice in connecting with you. If you were a native to Valeya, the impact would have been far less taxing on your soul. However, as you're human, well... Valeyian soul melds are not for the faint of heart." She continued to gently stroke his sweating forehead in the same way as a mother would for her child.
Everett could feel her unconditional love for everyone on Destiny as she sat quietly and patiently waiting for his next question. "Can you tell me what happened?" he finally asked.
She smiled at him. "Of course my darling Everett, I have nothing to hide from you. Castell needed more than just to communicate with you...he needed your life energy too. During a Valeyian soul meld, both people bind their souls together and share life energy. The other thing they share is the ability to see in each others minds and communicate with visualization... so you had a vision of what Castell has seen, and is still seeing. As the Ori are suppressing his normal abilities, it has weakened him greatly, requiring a need for him to gain life; recharge if you like... Normally, this would be done with both parties well aware of what's happening, but under his circumstances, I guess he just "stole" some from you as soon as he was able to make a connection. It gets very complex about how all this works, but in short it is the idea that all life in the universe is connected, and when one knows how to connect, they can."
She could see his uncertain look, "Don't worry my Darling...he stopped well short of any damage to you. It is not so much your body that is feeling unwell...it is really your soul and life energy that is low. Give it a couple more days and you will be fully recovered."
Everett asked a genuine but cheeky question. "Can you speed it up for me?"
Lady Destiny chuckled. "Not this I'm afraid. The energy comes from the universe itself and is out of my control. I do know that it will only take a couple of days to return to you, but it has given Castell time...and time is what you need to find him..." She kissed Everett on the head and vanished, just as Te'arly walked through the door.
Te'arly smiled knowingly. "Did she explain what happened Honey?" she asked casually.
Everett smiled back. "Did you see her?"
"No, but I knew she would come to you...I could feel her, but not see her. That was just for you I would imagine," Te'arly replied back as she sat on the side of the bed. "What did she say happened?"
"It was a Valeyian soul meld, when two souls connect together and share energy...he took some of mine to stay alive and gave me an insight to his whereabouts. A bit freaky really..." Everett told her. "She said I should be right in a couple of days, just takes a while to replace whatever he took."
Te'arly lent over and gave him a decent kiss on the lips, saying afterwards, "That should help too...my love."
A short while later, Nick called through the ship's com to Everett saying, "General, I think we may have a location of the galaxy. The Apollo crew have a lead on several likely galaxies not far from where the trail ran cold. If you're feeling up to it, I can patch you through to Colonel Mitchell."
Everett began to smile broadly, "Do it Rush. Thanks".
Cameron connected through the com system to Everett's holoscreen above him. "Hey Sir", he said casually; "You're a bit like General O'Neill, sticking your head into alien devices... without the device. Dr. Perry filled me in on your condition...I don't know about you, but all this extra special stuff you have seems more of a curse than a blessing..." Everett gave a chuckle, as Cameron watched on, smiling at his friend. "Anyway, look...Daniel and Sága have found a reference to the two blue worlds you have seen... it was in an interrogation interview with an Ori Prior we captured a few years ago. He was rambling on all about new world order under Origin etc, etc... he mentioned something strange. I'll let Daniel take over and explain." Cameron moved out of camera shot, and stood beside Daniel.
Daniel got straight to the point. "Hi, how are you feeling?" Daniel paused for a moment for Everett to nod his okay. "Sága suggested looking at anything the Ori may have said to us that we had record of and this was flagged pretty quickly. Have a listen to this..." he played the recording.
'Among the Ori is the vision of the one who will unite the two worlds. He that shall be taken from the planet of unknown existence will submit to the power of the Ori, and rise to be Orici Immortal and rule the universe of Origin.'
Daniel continued "He sounded pretty scary at that point, but until now we had no idea what or who he was on about. We have narrowed it down to one of three distinct Ori or ex-Ori occupied galaxies, but we'll have to still manually scan for the two planets."
Everett shook his head. "Damn, that would take ages...not to mention it would be a whole lot of fun with an open ship in possible enemy territories. There must be a better way than that... all of those galaxies could have billions of stars!" He was dismissive as his frustrations built.
Cameron came back into focus. "True, but we have been concentrating on the ones with Supergates outside of solar systems. The Asgard has been able to create a device that detects the power signatures of Supergates within any given galaxy, some time ago. We have an Asgard ship on the way to us with a more powerful version of the device."
Daniel politely interrupted Cameron and continued. "Sága has told me that it will detect the most heavily used Supergate first, due to its increased signature. It has to come close to getting us on target just based on that alone and it's where we intend to start. We have already narrowed it down to the most likely galaxy, but if no substantial signatures turn up within a few hours of scanning, we'll move to the next." Daniel sounded confident they were onto something.
Everett smiled broadly at the two faces looking at him. "Okay...sounds like you're more under control than me." He paused for a moment and then in a heartfelt way he said, "Thanks guys, all of you!"
Cameron understood what he was feeling about his friend... it wasn't about what might happen...it was about their calling of never leaving a man behind, even if he wasn't from their own world...
A few days passed without anything than routine normality on Destiny. Her path had taken them beyond the center of the Valeyian Galaxy and they were now heading toward the outer solar systems. Everett had regained his energy and was back in command, which was good news for the new "Mr. and Mrs. Scott", who had been granted an extended leave from duty for a couple of weeks. As a wedding present, they had received an invitation from Valhalla to relax for a week on Valeya. This was basically a free honeymoon to a planet they both had enjoyed when Destiny had landed there for upgrades. They didn't need to be asked twice, and Chloe insisted Patricia come with them to stand on a different world!
Ginn had recovered well, but she was still relying heavily on Eli to help with Lala until she herself got back to full strength. The real Lady Destiny had come to see Ginn and Eli privately to meet baby Lala. After a few moments of holding Lala, Lady Destiny showed a side of herself from before Ascension.
Ginn had asked without really thinking of who she was, "Do you have any children?"
Lady Destiny looked straight at Ginn while a deep sadness arose in her eyes as she replied, "Before I ascended...yes, two boys. Neither my husband nor children were able to Ascend as I did, but that was many, many years ago. They have become a part of life itself now and joined the universe as pure energy." She went quiet for a moment as Ginn realized she may have hit a raw nerve. She spoke up again in a different and more upbeat tone, reading Ginn's expressions. "It's okay Ginn...life is a cycle all of us complete and death is not final for 'you'...just your body. You have already had that experience of being pure consciousness, but as I believed, it was something that happened to you before it was due time."
Ginn remembered the feelings of her own murder... Lady Destiny had reached out and touched her gently, breaking her nightmarish thoughts into nothingness.
As she passed Lala back, she said to Ginn and Eli, "Thank you for naming her after me, it is an honor to be remembered in such great light. Please know this from me... she will be protected should anything happen..." Lady Destiny made a real promise next that shocked both Ginn and Eli. "I would give up my Ascension to look after her, should it come to be..."
A stunned Eli and Ginn finally said goodbye to Lady Destiny, still not believing how far she would go to help. Eli cradled his little girl and said, "Well Sweetheart, you have a real Fairy God Mother should you ever you need her..." He kissed her softly on the forehead...
Nick was sitting in Kirk's chair with Amanda resting on his lap cuddled into him, stealing a private moment in time just looking out of the bridge screens as they travelled in FTL. A message brought them back to reality as it appeared on the CI screen.
"Warning... Subspace anomaly detected, possible trace signal. I am unable to investigate or define source."
Amanda looked at Nick and asked aloud, "How long has it been transmitting?"
Destiny answered her on the screen, "Possibly fifteen minutes, coming from an internal source not connected to my mainframe."
Nick took action immediately, "General Young this is Dr. Rush on the bridge, please respond," he said over the com.
A few moments later Everett replied. "Yes Rush, what is it?"
Nick kept it secret to avoid alerting whoever was responsible. "We have detected a highly populated planet, possibly very advanced. Could you please come to the bridge...um, ASAP?"
Everett looked at a very naked Te'arly lying on the bed watching him, with a naughty grin on her face. "Damn you Rush..." he said under his breath and sighed, "Okay, be there soon... Young out," and he jumped back into bed saying, "Damn his timing..."
Te'arly hugged him, pulling Everett toward her and whispered in a sexy voice, "I'll still be ready when you get back Honey..." She kissed him on the neck, then passionately on the lips before sending him on his way.
As Everett walked through the door of the bridge he said loudly to Nick, "This better be good Rush..." but saw the look on Nick's face.
Nick put his finger to his lips and whispered "Shhh!" then said loudly, "Destiny, seal off all recording and voice transmission from the bridge until I give the command to reinstate it."
A message appeared on the screen in Ancient, "Bridge is closed..."
Everett got his words out first saying; "What the hell is going on Rush?"
Nick started. "Right, I think we may have a saboteur onboard Ev. Destiny has alerted us to a subspace signal being transmitted from somewhere in the ship, but she is unable to trace its origin."
Everett shook his head in disbelief. "Are you absolutely sure about this Rush, I know all the crew have come through the SGC and IOC screening process...unless it's one of the hitchhikers we've picked up?"
Nick looked to Amanda who could offer no insight this time before saying, "I can't say for certain, but someone has to have done this. Destiny has given us limited details about the transmission, but it is jumping from one place to another and we can't get an exact fix on it, although it seems to be coming from the living decks. There also seems to be a bunch of smaller systems that have been acting up for a few days, but we just put it down to normal wear and tear, or a sensor glitch."
Everett was having trouble believing anyone of his crew would turn against them, but he couldn't discard the evidence of the signal. "Alright, let's say it was one of ours...what and why are the reasons?"
Nick shook his head, "I don't know...but someone wants us found by someone or thing. The best action would be to stop the transmission, but we have to find the device to do that..."
Everett finished the sentence for him, "Which means a search that may tip off whoever is responsible. Okay then... who do we trust this to?"
Amanda answered, "Well, I can tell you who it isn't... any of us that are connected to Destiny, as I knew nothing about this until she told us. So that eliminates me, Chloe, who is not on the ship anyway, Franklin, Ginn, and Eli. So unless either of you two has done this, that leaves the rest of our crew as suspects..."
Everett sighed, "Damn it." he brushed his hair back with his right hand and said, "Rush, when was the last crew rotation, and get me the details on whoever are the new faces?"
Nick tapped the CI screen, "Seven weeks ago;" his voice changed to a concentrating tone, "and the newbs are: six Marines, two Airmen, five scientists, and one Asgard female called Kelda." They all smiled slightly at the mention of Kelda's name as she had become somewhat of an unusual celebrity with a very quirky sense of humor.
Everett said quickly, "I really don't think an Asgard would be behind something like this. Just for the moment, we will leave Kelda out of the situation, agreed?"
Nick nodded, along with Amanda, both repeating, "Agreed..."
Nick said, "Ev, I think the first thing to do is start searching with people we know we can trust, and keep the military out of it, so as not to tip them off."
Everett didn't like it, but Nick made sense about keeping everything under the radar, answering, "I'll get Greer and TJ to check the military side of things discretely; meanwhile you guys get Eli, Franklin, Camille, and Lisa, to start checking quarters for a "suspected systems issue." Amanda, do we have something to detect this with that wouldn't arouse suspicion?"
She closed her eyes for a few seconds thinking, and then replied, "I could reprogram a few Kino controls if we can get a lock on the signal modulation... it will take me a few minutes though."
Everett nodded and smiled, although he remained deadly serious. "Okay, get whatever you need as soon as you can...we have to stop this device now!" She rushed out past him on a mission. "Rush, I need you to try and crack the frequency for Amanda, I'll organize the others for the search." He began to walk out of the bridge as Nick replied, "On it already Ev, I'll keep you updated..." Nick didn't take his eyes off the CI screen.
It didn't take long for Nick to find the transmission frequency and he promptly patched it through directly to Amanda. She found it a straight forward process to alter the Kino control to look for the signal and quickly reprogrammed several before handing them out to those searching.
Everett gave everyone specific areas and instructions so that they were not scanning their own rooms. It wasn't long before Amanda and Camille found the first transmitter... in Chloe and Matt's quarters. About fifteen minutes later, Franklin and Lisa found a second transmitter in Eli and Ginn's room. After another hour of discrete searching, no more devices were located, nor did Destiny detect any more evidence of a signal leaking. Everett called a general meeting with his main trusted crew in Destiny's sealed conference room.
"Okay guys," he said as he entered the room, "thanks for coming on short notice, and I want you all to listen first without interruption." He paused for a moment, making sure they agreed. "We have found two transmission devices... one was located in Captain Scott's quarters, the other in Eli's. Now what we know so far is that both of these parties have been otherwise distracted over the last several days, giving many opportunities for persons unknown to hide the devices. Discounting them is not a normal step in this process, but all of them have access and means to do significant damage to the ship or crew... and to be honest, I trust all of them implicitly and with my own life. So this leaves us with a case of sabotage by an unknown..." Nick entered the room stopping Everett in mid-sentence.
Nick said quickly, "You need to see this..." he held an iPad in his hand with star chart plots on the screen. "Here is where we should be..." he pointed at a local star cluster, then slid the screen and brought up the next chart. "And this is where we really are! This is over 300 light years from our course, over twenty hours of FTL travel." Everett looked on stunned.
Eli shook his head in bewildered amazement, "Bullshit! It's not possible! We have fail-safes and cryptic hexadecimal algorithm, how can someone alter the course of the ship without Destiny herself knowing...it's not possible!" He didn't want to believe it, but the situation was staring him in the face. "Rush, let me see that!" Eli snatched the iPad from him, as Nick offered no resistance.
Everett said calmly, "Is it right Eli?"
Eli looked up at them all, especially Dr. Rush. "What the fuck? Yeah...it is." Eli mumbled to himself, "This is bullshit, it can't be!"
Nick stared back at Eli sympathetically saying, "I'm sorry Lad, Destiny has been deceived. It also explains all the minor systems issues that have happened over the last couple of days, most were sensor related."
Everett wasn't happy, neither was anyone else in the room. "So we have been flying blind for what Rush, about twenty hours?"
Nick answered, "Looks like it General. I have modified her course and we're heading back to our original path, but we are a long way from it... it will take about twenty four hours." Nick summed it for the mood. "They have made fools of us all!"
Eli looked at Camille and Greer's expressions and explained in more detail. "It would be impossible to change course without Destiny knowing. So they have gone around it by altering the perception of Destiny's sensor array. The sensors detect direction, stars, speed, and all sorts of feedback needed to navigate across space. Basically they have tricked the sensors in giving the wrong information to the nav computer, and altered our course. No one was any the wiser for it..." He was still taking the situation in.
Everett gazed across the table to everyone. "So, how do we want to play this from here? I have my own suggestions, but I'm asking for everyone's viewpoint and input." He waited for an answer.
Rush went first. "We don't want to scare anyone off, but I'm sure they would have worked out by now that we have found the signal devices they planted. I believe the best course of action might be to fight fire with fire...lay a trap for them and see if we can draw them out."
Others agreed with Nick, but had concerns also. Eli said, "But if they have realized we're on to them by finding the devices, wouldn't they go to ground to avoid detection? I know I would."
Everett added, "That depends on their motive in the first place. If they believe they have the upper hand, they may be ready to make another more direct move. Obviously something is coming for us; question is, what?"
Eli again added, "I've run the device against Destiny's data and the V Bank. It appears to be somewhat Valeyian in construction..." Eli twigged, "Or Ori!"
As the realization began to dawn on everyone in the meeting, Everett took a full military approach. "Master Sergeant Greer, get you most trusted men and arrest all of our new personal immediately, except Kelda, I will question her myself. If any resist, restrain from deadly force as we will need to extract information."
Camille protested, but with caution. "Sir, are you certain a full military approach is wise at this time? Won't that force someone into rash behavior...it could make matters worse?"
Everett was certain in his decision. "We will deal with that if it arises. Meanwhile, there is nothing stopping the Ori from dialing our Stargate to drop us out of FTL in an area we're not supposed to be in. The lives of everyone here are now at stake. Sergeant Greer, proceed now!"
"Yes Sir!" He abruptly left to find his men.
Eli made a suggestion. "We can remove the crystals from the gate and attempt to shut it down, but it is difficult to stop incoming wormholes... unless we can somehow restrict the incoming connection from the other gate. Otherwise the Ori seem to have the power to keep it open indefinitely."
Nick added, "The only real way to stop the gate from receiving a call is to either use it first, or dismantle it. Obviously using it is out of the question...we don't want to be a sitting duck, but it will take a while to dismantle it enough to render it useless."
Franklin had another idea. "What if we override the protocols that drop us from FTL? Effectively we would stay in FTL and the gate won't be able to lock..."
Eli and Nick's eyes widened quickly as they all looked at each other. Amanda communicated with Destiny as she closed her eyes and concentrated on a solution.
Finally she opened her eyes and said, "Destiny is not able to override that system, but we should have the ability to. However, it will take some work..."
Everett cut in, "And we don't know how long we have..." he nodded his head, "Okay...do it."
They left the room immediately and set to work on overriding the protocols, while Everett took Lisa with him to go and speak to Kelda.
Greer had rounded up his men, and so far everyone played nice and didn't resist his orders. As they approached one of the science labs looking for a man by the name of Dr. Rodger Markins, their show of force quickly spooked him as he turned to run.
Greer radioed Young as he watched his men give chase. "Sir, we have a Dr. Rodger Markins who has just started running...and he will be stopping in just a moment..." he smiled as he heard the stun sound from the Zat'nik'tel. "And he is down Sir... we'll take him for interrogation."
Everett smiled, knowing the look on Greer's face. "Well done Sergeant, I'll meet you there shortly."
He left Lisa with Kelda after their very polite and light hearted talks, as his own instincts told him she was no party to this anyway...
Eli wanted to punch the screen in frustration as they tried diligently to override the FTL protocol command from an incoming wormhole signal. "Damn it!" he cried out, and added a few choice words to express his anger.
He felt a reassuring hand on his shoulder a few seconds later and looked around. "Hi Baby..." said Ginn, "It's going to be alright...now, what can I do to help?"
"Where's Lala?" asked Eli immediately.
Ginn smiled at him. "With TJ and Varro, they're looking after her for us... you need my help!" Eli smiled as she sat down beside him at the open CI console...
Everett stood and stared hard at Dr. Markins before saying, "If you tell us what is going on, it will be far easier for you. On the other hand..." he sat down in front of Markins, "Varro has created some very interesting... serums that when injected into you, well... I imagine you can work out the rest."
Markins said his first words to Everett. "It's already too late...they have found us and will destroy your whole little family on board... and your precious ship!" he laughed, "You think you are so untouchable out here with some other races' technology. All I had to do was change the data from the sensors, so simple, and now you don't even know where you are. So much for your advanced technology, tricked by a substitute data stream!" he laughed without fear.
"Hmmm, I see. Oh, I forgot to tell you...someone already gave you something for the pain, and they also told us that you probably won't shut up for a while, as anything you know will just 'leak' out if I ask, so... Did Genesis command this from his Ori Warship?"
Markins tried not to speak but he found he was compelled to answer and had no control over his new automated voice. "He didn't know of my placement on Destiny." He smiled cunningly, "Neither did the real Dr. Markins, who now knows how cold space really is without a suit. A servant of Genesis gave me my orders and altered my appearance and genetics to become Markins...we just switched him out before he went on rotation."
Everett signaled Greer to follow him out of the room saying to another Marine, "Keep him talking Sergeant," and left the room.
Everett turned and faced Ron, saying. "Push him about the galaxy, gate addresses, etc. If I'm right, he should be able to tell us where the twin blue planets are."
Ron asked, "How long does that stuff work for?"
Everett answered with a shrug. "Varro said about four hours. And when he collapses..." he smiled, "it has worn off and the mother of all headaches begins..."