Getting called to one of the labs wasn't unusual. Getting called to a lab to find someone in a stasis pod was.
"Is she an Alteran? Someone forgotten when they returned to Earth?" Dr. Brightman asked.
Alexander studied his scanner for a moment and then said. "No, she's human. The stasis pod she's in wasn't designed to be used for extended periods of time. Maybe a few centuries at most. Which means someone did some work on it to extend how long it could be used for. Which explains why she looks so old. It slowed her aging considerably, but not completely. I have no idea why a human would be put in a stasis pod anyway."
"Can we remove her safely?" Dr. Brightman asked.
"Yes. But she's too far gone for the healing pod, she'll die if we remove her. But my scanner is showing something else. Her DNA is a match for an expedition member."
"You're saying one of our members, ended up in Atlantis before your people left?" Jon asked.
"How?" Sheppard asked.
"SG 1 found a jumper on a planet once that had a time shifter in it. It's possible at some point, we'll find something like that here and she got sent back."
"So we have to remove her, so we can figure it out." Jon concluded.
"Yes."
"Then we do it under controlled circumstances, in the infirmary." Dr. Brightman decided.
"Agreed." Jon said.
"We can disconnect the pod from Atlantis' systems without shutting it down. Then move it to the infirmary." Alexander said.
"Alexander, you said her DNA matches someone in the expedition." Jon said. "Who's?"
"Dr. Weir."
"Then she should be there when we get her out of the pod."
"I agree."
"Sheppard, go get her. Explain to her what's going on and bring her to the infirmary." Jon ordered.
"Yes, sir." He responded and left to find her.
"This is going to be a doozy of a story, isn't?" Jon asked no one in particular.
"Don't see how it can't be." Alexander agreed, as he directed the engineers in how to separate the pod from Atlantis' systems.
Dr. Weir and Major Sheppard were waiting in the infirmary when the group arrived with the stasis pod.
"You're sure she's me?" Dr. Weir asked Alexander.
"Her DNA is a match for yours. So yes, I'm sure she's you."
"How?"
"Some how, she ended up going back in time. We're going to wake her up and find out how."
Before long Dr. Brightman told them she was waking up. She looked around and then said. "I made it. Lt. Harris, you're out of uniform."
"My rank is Captain ma'am, of the Altimah. Which is equivalent to Colonel in the U. S. Air Force."
"What went wrong? I was trying to save you all, what changed?"
"What happened? How did you end up in the past?" Jon asked.
"General O'Neill? Why are you here? And when did you start coloring your hair?"
"Jon O'Neill, ma'am and I'm a clone of Jack O'Neill. I'm the leader of this expedition. You were relieved of the leadership of this expedition because you made several bad judgement calls. You're our negotiator."
"Where's Colonel Sumner?"
"Who?" Jon asked.
"The military commander."
"I'm the military commander, ma'am." Alexander said.
"But you're so young. Things are very different."
"There isn't alot of time, ma'am. Your dying of old age. You've been in that pod for a long time. Can you tell us how you ended up in there?" Jon asked.
"The city was in trouble from the moment we got here. Atlantis was nearly out of power and the shield started to collapse. Major Sheppard and Dr. Zalenka found a ship with something different in the back. Major Sheppard thought, maybe he could fly the ship and get us out of there. The thing in the back activated. We found ourselves in space and under attack. Major Sheppard tried to fight back, but we ended up crashing. He and Dr. Zalenka died. My injuries were healed by a man named Janus, a scientist."
"Charming, funny, flirts with anything female?" Corda asked.
"Yes, how did you know?"
"No time, you're vitals are fading, ma'am."
"He took me before the Council. He said I'd been in a time ship he invented. The Council destroyed it and trapped me there because they felt the ship violated causality. They were evacuating Atlantis. They'd lost a war to a terrible enemy called Wraith. They were the ones that fired on us. The Council offered to let me return to Earth with them but Janus came up with another way. He installed a fail safe, to make Atlantis return to the surface when the power dropped to a certain level. Then he arranged a stasis pod for me to return to my own time in. Everything should be the same, why isn't it?"
"That's not a question we can answer, ma'am." Alexander told her. "And we're not on the surface. We brought a Potentia with us. The fail safe never activated because there was no need for it, power levels never dropped low enough."
"Potentia?"
"The battery we use to power our ships and cities."
"ZPM, Rodney named them ZPMs."
"You brought Rodney McKay along on the expedition?" Alexander asked.
"Yes, why wouldn't we? He's brilliant."
"I guess he wasn't responsible for twelve deaths in your timeline." Alexander answered.
"No." She said, horrified. "He wasn't. I had a piece of paper with me. Janus gave it to me. It has the addresses of planets that still had functioning ZPMs on them. They may still be there."
"Then we'll explore them." Jon assured her. "You can rest now, Dr. Weir. Whether we're the same people you knew or not, the expedition and Atlantis are safe."
"Safe." She murmured softly and died.