Chapter I
Destiny is in FLT, the sea of bluish light slides off her like she was a rock thrown in a shallow pond. Inside her not a sound is heard, not a light is seen. Her crew is still sleeping waiting to wake up, after the travel between galaxies is complete. A sound echoes. A metallic vibration is heard throughout her, like a wave pounding in the dry sand, she drops out of FLT, is the journey over? The Stargate starts to spin, one chevron activates then another and another soon a vertical wave of light and energy lights up the once called “Gate Room”. Destiny starts to power up; every console, every corridor, every system is active; she comes alive like she was meant to be. Someone step through the bluish/grey puddle. It’s a man in a military type cloths, he looks around in wonder: “She’s beautiful.” He says in a low voice like a whisper to himself. He steps aside and a sea of people start pouring in, every single one of them carries one or more suitcases it’s a boarding party of 10 people. When the Stargate shuts down and the discharged vapor floods the Gate Room everyone is startled, everyone except the first man that stepped through, the leader.
The leader turns around to face them all:
- You know what to do.
They throw the suitcases to the side and scatter through different corridors. The leader heads directly to the main console in the Gate Room, he pulls up what appears to be a map of sorts. He looks at it for a couple of minutes then turns around and starts walking in rapid steps like he’s in a race against time. Soon after that he’s in the Control Interface Room; starts to press a few buttons, there’s no hesitation and no mistakes he knows exactly what he is doing. In the blue ‘Head Up Display’ shows the location of the suspended animation pods. He follows the path displayed on the screen with his finger; he’s drawing a mental map of the way to the pods. When he’s done he’s
turns off the console, as the blue HUD slowly fades out he turns around a walks way.
He enters the room filled with the suspended animation pods, the room lights up. He’s walking
slowly looking in every pod. He stops, in front of him is Dr. Rush, not who he is looking for. He turns
around and looks at Master-Sergeant Greer still not the person he is looking for, continues to search in the end of the row of pods is the person he is looking for: Col. Everett Young. After glazing at Col. Young he goes to the console and presses another set of buttons, the pods light up and steam starts to run down from the top of the tubular shaped pods.
Col. Young opens his eyes, the pod door swoops up. He steps outside, very groggy from the sleep. At first Col. Young has trouble speaking it’s like his vocal cords are fuse together but he clears his throat and:
COL. YOUNG: Eli, are we there yet?
Eli was not there. He open his eyes and focus, there’s a man standing in front of him.
LEADER: Hello, Col. Young. Welcome back.
COL. YOUNG: Wait… I know who you are.
LEADER: I would hope so.
He extends his hand to greet Col. Young.
LEADER: My name is Jonas Quinn. I’ve came here to help you.
Col. Young also extends his hand and greets Jonas, at the same time he turns his head and sees everybody coming out of the pods, the same disoriented and groggy look he had a moment ago. He turns to Jonas:
COL. YOUNG: How? How did you get here? How long as it been? What happened back home?
JONAS QUINN: Everything in good time. Help our people first then if you don’t mind ask everyone to
the Observation Deck so I can address you all.
Col. Young did just that. Everyone came out of the pods with the same questions: “How long as it been?”, “What happened?”, “Where are we?”, “Are we safe?”
Lt. Johansen stepped out of her pod and hugged Col. Young completely ignoring Jonas Quinn standing by his side. Greer greeted Varro with a solid hand shake, Varro turned to Johansen nodded his head and smiled, she smiled back. Greer then turn to the side and helped Dr. Park get out of her pod, she hugged him and planted a soft kiss in his lips. Dr. Volker opened his eyes and saw that display of affection between Greer and Park and a wave of sadness overcome him as he turn and walked way to greet Dr. Brody and Varro. Lt. Scott salutes Col.
Young and rushed to Chloe’s pod. She smiled when he came around the bend of the pod and jumped into his arms and they kissed passionately, after that she looks around both ways and says:
CHLOE ARMSTRONG: Where’s Eli? Shouldn’t he be here?
LT. SCOTT: Maybe he’s in one of the other pod
rooms.
Dr. Rush walks out of his pod and looks around, nods to Col. Young and then he sees Jonas Quinn, for the first time Col. Young sees an surprised expression in Rush’s face.
DR. RUSH: Who the hell are you?
He speaks in a loud tone. Everyone stops and for the first time notices that there’s an unknown person standing there.
MR. BRODY: Wait… How did you get here? Aren’t we in space?
Everybody looks at Brody for a moment and then turn to unknown man standing next to Col. Young.
JONAS QUINN: My name is Jonas Quinn. When all of you are able, please join me in the Observation Deck. Dr. Rush when you feel up to it, please go up to the bridge and turn of the countdown clock, thank you.
Jonas nodes to Col. Young and leaves the room.
COL. YOUNG: You heard the man. Spread the word. Observation Deck, 15 minutes. Rush… countdown clock.
CHLOE ARMSTRONG: Where’s Eli? Anybody seen Eli?
No one answered. Rush looked at Col. Young, and Young looked back. Both knew that there was a small chance that Eli could be dead if he failed to fix the last pod.
DR. RUSH: Let’s go to the Observation Deck, he may already be there.
Rush walked away from Chloe, leaving her with Scott and went to have a talk with Col. Young.
DR. RUSH: What do you think, Col.? You think he made it?
COL. YOUNG: I don’t know… Out of all of us three, I believe he had the best chance of fixing the pod in the allotted time. For all I know, you are right. He may already be at the Observation Deck, after all
the last pod wasn’t in this level.
DR. RUSH: Or he didn’t and in that case he may be dead somewhere in this ship.
Col. Young said nothing, he looked at Rush and started walking to the bridge. But deep down he knew that Rush had a valid point.
The crew arrived at the Observation Deck; leaning against the railing was Jonas Quinn and his men. All of them were gasping at the view. Destiny was sitting in space at the distance, amongst the sea of stars, lay a planet and behind it a big yellow sun. Jonas turned first then his men, he stepped forward and:
JONAS QUINN: I know all of you have questions, I will do my best to answer them but first I will tell the tale of how we got here and what have we came here to do.
Chloe entered the room still looking around for Eli. Everybody was already there, expect for Eli, she was about to shout for Eli when Jonas Quinn started to talk…
