Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:57:19 -0500
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@alltel.net>
Subject: Heritage of the Ancients- Ancients Ascended 01

				Arrival Day

"Dr. Weir to Control.Colonel Sheppard to the Control room." A panicked voice
came over their headsets.

"This is Weir report." Elizabeth said as she activated her headset.

"Ma'am Long range sensors are picking up ships of unknown type arriving in
system." The watch officer reported.

"Are they Wraith ships?" Weir asked wanting clarification.

"No Ma'am we are not sure what type they are, they are not in our data base
or the Atlantis mainframe." The watch officer answered.

John Sheppard who had been listening in asked. "What do you mean by arrived,
shouldn't we have picked them up before they made it in system?"

"That's the thing Sir, one minute space was empty next the system monitors
were beeping in warning as the ships appeared as if from thin air." The
confused officer reported.

Running up the steps towards the control area Elizabeth asked. "What are
these ships doing?"

"That's the thing they seemed to be making way to the edge of the system,
briefly circling each planet as they pass it." The officer turned and told
her as she made it into the room.

"Rodney?" Elizabeth started to ask catching sight of him moving frantically
between computers.

"Don't ask me I just got here, ask him he knows more of what's going on then
I do." Rodney pointed towards the watch officer upset he had to leave his
dinner.

John Sheppard followed by Teyla made their way in to the control room in
time to see an image of one of the ships in question as it moved away from
the now defunct weapons platform.

"Teyla, do you recognize them?" John asked as he made his way over to stand
next to Elizabeth.

 "I have never seen their like before." Teyla answered just as another of
the proximity alarms sounded and the screen shifted to show a vessel that
clearly dwarfed the others appear mid system.

Before anyone had a chance to say anything the ship in question rapidly took
off towards the edge of the system.

"What's that all about?" John said to no one in particular as he watched the
rapidly accelerating ship.

Right about then Atlantis started to die.

All the systems started powering down one after another.

"Rodney do something." Elizabeth yelled as the lights went off followed by
the system mainframe.

"It's not me." Rodney muttered in denial hoping to shift blame to anyone
else.

Then loudly he said. "It's Atlantis itself, it's shutting down all power
relays and systems, even thought there is power coming from the generators."

"Well fix it." John shouted annoyed.

"I can't." Pushing one of the techs sitting in front of the laptop out of
the way, Rodney tried typing in overrides, too late as the mainframe shut
down completely.

"It's gone." Rodney practically screamed in frustration. "The main frame
shut down and there is nothing I can do to restart it."

"John." Elizabeth Weir started worriedly.

John looked about for an idea. "The puddle jumpers, at least we can get one
in the air to see what is going on."

"Do it." Weir ordered.

Clicking his headset on, he ordered some of his men to the hanger bay to
take out one of the puddle jumpers, and to send back verbal reports of what
was happening.

A few minutes later they all heard over their headsets. "Sorry Sir there is
no power to the controls."

"Shit, why is this happening?" Rodney swore as he started to turn, looking
at each of the dead stations.

"Dial the gate." Elizabeth ordered as she moved around the back of the
console towards the front of the room. "Doesn't matter where just get a
wormhole open."

The technician at the gate console tried pressing the keys to dial out, but
they were unlit and no power was going to the system. "Sorry the gate has
shut down also."

Hearing that John motioned for two of his team to guard the door while the
rest of them were to follow him to prepare for invasion in case those ships
were hostile, hostile he thought, the city going dead like this, sure
sounded hostile to him.

XXXX

Harry willed his chair to the upright position and took a good look at the
world below, their new home.

'Aloria how quickly could you power up weapons again if needed?' Harry asked
through their mental link.

'Very quickly, fifty seconds at most.' Aloria answered.

Standing up Harry released some of his control, ordering the weapon systems
to shut down.

Moving to the edge of the railing Harry watched all the command staff
cheering and patting themselves on the back for a minute, before saying.
"Shift Complete.All crews stand down to station keeping. Let the fun begin."

Glow disappearing as Harry let go of his core, he walked over to where Bryce
was sitting and sat down next to him on the stairs.

Picking up another of the high calorie drinks that appeared beside him
courtesy of an ever watchful Aloria, he took a drink before saying. "Well
all that work and in a blink of the eye here we are So were you bored silly
sitting here watching everyone work and not much going on?" Harry asked
sitting down on the top step.

Bryce stared at the world through the windows, he remembered seeing pictures
of this system in his history modules, never believing he would ever see it.
"It looks different in person." Moving out of the chair and scooting over
next to Harry, Bryce grabbed on wanting comfort. "I remember learning about
this place in history. It is so different than I remember."

Pulling his fosterling into a hug so he could offer some comfort while Bryce
was lost in his memories, Harry watched as several shuttles with security
forces intent on recon launched and headed towards the planet.

Noticing Tonks and several others gathering near the arrival area, Harry
gave Bryce a squeeze and said." Come on let's go down to where I normally
set up and watch all the fun."

Arm across Bryce's shoulder as he pulled him in close, the two made their
way down the steps towards the embarkation deck, stopping every so often to
talk to those manning the stations, they were barely doing their jobs in
their excitement.

Finally making their way past the gate console and up to Harry's work
platform they sat down and Harry started to activate the displays while
Bryce tapped away at one of the panels also. Curious at what Bryce was
doing, he looked over to see that he was pulling up information on Lantea
from the data base uploaded from the Cyrorar, and was comparing the pictures
of the past he remembered to what he was seeing now. "Are you alright?"
Harry asked with some concern.

Bryce looked up at Harry and nodded his head. "Just remembering things."
Sad, but not overly so he replied.

Looking at the sad teen, Harry touched his core briefly and using his will
widened the chair enough so two could sit comfortably. "Come here." Harry
motioned to Bryce to sit next to him, sharing his chair.

Brightening somewhat, Bryce jumped from his chair and scrunched up next to
Harry, leaning his head against his arm as he watched what was going on.

As Harry set about having the displays reveal real time data of the forces
deployed in the system, his advisors and department heads made their way to
the work platform and logged into the stations in front of them, better able
to report to Harry what was happening in their departments this way. Trying
his best to comfort Bryce and at the same time pay attention, Harry started
to watch the different Holo display as information scrolled through them.

Jack slotting his data pad into the table and activating his station looked
over at Harry, and saw Bryce snuggled up next to him not looking that happy.
Catching Harry's eye he motioned his head towards Bryce and raised an
eyebrow in a questioning manner.

Seeing Harry mouth back memories he nodded his head in understanding before
catching up with what his people were doing.

"Confirmation from Atlantis main frame that the systems have been shut down
and receiving complete data dump to protected files." Aloria stated.

"How long has Atlantis been shut down?" Harry asked looking over the Holo
reports.

"I sent the shut down command fifteen minutes ago." Aloria replied.

"Atlantis control will be re-routed to Toria Ai Shas and complete in thirty
minutes and power up will proceed as planned." Kevin told the group as he
sat down and logged in.

"And the link to Transfer Stations on Atlantis and Shas?" Harry looked up
from the reports he was scanning.

"It will take a little longer as the feeds I am getting show that the
systems have suffered what looks like salt water damage and will need to be
repaired. On top of that their power source has failed completely and it is
only by some foreign power source spliced into the network that they have
partial system control." Kevin answered then frowned at what he was seeing
on his display. "Were going to need a good two weeks of work just to prep
for the new power feed to be installed and that does not even count the time
needed to re build the power centers to handle singularity generators." he
told the group.

"Also by what I am seeing in the system repair logs, quite a few of the
systems have been damaged, and not all from water damage either." Kevin
threw up a Holo of Atlantis  in the center display showing massive areas
blinking in red.

Harry narrowed his eyes in thought as he studied the Holo, what the hell was
keeping the city afloat he thought. "How long until she sinks without power
being restored?"

Kevin looked at the damage control feeds reporting their priority messages
for repair before answering. "Two possibly three hours, then she will start
listing and she will rapidly go down."

"So we have a little bit of time to plan then." Harry looked around the
table to his team.

"Neville, what's got you brassed off over there?" Harry wondered catching
the look on Neville's face.

"Well none of the greenhouses or farms have been accessed yet." Neville told
them without looking up. "But from what I am reading it is a good thing they
haven't as most of what has survived is nastily lethal. I have no idea how
to be sure to get rid of it all, so they can be restarted with fresh
materials." Neville frowned as he read more of the information scrolling on
his display, his thoughts turning his expression angry once again.

"Can't we just bring it into deep space and expose the interior to vacuum
thus killing everything inside." Vlad asked as he took his seat.

"Well she doesn't have the power right now to make orbit, let alone even
bring up her weather shields." Kevin changed the display so they could see
the power generation map.

"Who knows what type of hazards are running around that city!" Tanaka told
them, he too looking through data on what the science labs held. Activating
the center display so everyone could see. "It looks like near the end, they
turned Atlantis into one big weapons generation facility, each scientist
trying to out do their comrades in how lethal they could make the next
biological monstrosity." Tanaka said in disgust.

Seeing Minerva walk onto the platform and take up a seat Harry asked. "How
are the kids?"

Sighing she replied. "Excited and bouncing off the walls. We had to set the
older students to help keep the younger ones occupied."

Bryce decided that maybe he would go help out, while not exactly boring,
what was happening now gave him to much time to think.

"I am going to go help out." Feeling pretty useless right now and wanting a
distraction Bryce added while smirking. "After all there is no end to the
trouble Cadfael can cause when he is hyper." A quick hug and a whispered "be
back for dinner" Bryce waved goodbye to those he knew and jumped down the
stairs and made his way to the TS set up by the arrival med bay.

"Is he ok?" Jack had waited until Bryce was out of earshot before asking.

Sighing Harry answered. "He will be, I think it was too much of a shock
seeing Lantea now and trying to equate it with his memories of how this
world used to be."

"I know what he is feeling." Lantera said as she sat down. "I think all of
us old timers will be having the same problems for the next couple of days.
I know it is going to be hard to visit the capital city and see the street I
grew up on deserted."

"That's true." Harry said as he looked down the table to where she was
sitting. "And the rest of us will do what we can to help too."

Frowning Jack listened in to the reports coming back from the scout pilots
and the shuttle crews that were making their way towards the capital city.
Turning the sound up Jack told the scout pilot. "Unicorn Seven repeat that."

"Unicorn Seven, I repeat I am over the coordinates of where the capital
buildings are supposed to be. There is nothing here but a large lake. I
repeat there is nothing but a lake here." The feminine voice told them.

Lantera sucked in a deep breath as she heard the report, while not expecting
a pristine city she had hoped that at least some of it and survived.

While Agatha comforted the distraught woman, Harry asked Aloria though the
link. 'Does the scout pilot have the right spot?'

Sorrow laced Aloria's voice as she replied. 'Yes and deep scans indicate no
surviving structures or evidence of missile damage,'

"We had hoped for more, but it looks like it was not meant to be." Harry
told them sadly. "Let's go with the secondary plan and have the scouts look
for a new building site, and send the shuttles and crews to Atlantis for the
initial assessments."

"We might want to send down some security folks to, looks like there is some
one living there right now." Augusta told them as she indicated the system
activity reports for TS usage.

"Might be a good idea, we can send them down through the gate along with a
bunch of the remotes to start modifications to the systems, at least enough
modifications so we can get power up and running again." Powaqa suggested.

Turning his chair to face the gate console Harry opened the com channel and
surprising the man. "Steven have you been able to get a signal back from the
Atlantis gate?"

"Yes, Lord Commander, I just finished going over the diagnostic report and
upgrade proposal a few minutes ago." Steven jumped at the sound of Harry's
voice coming from the com unit.

Smiling sheepishly he turned to look over to Harry's workstation and saw
that he was looking his way. "This Astria seems to be a nexus, and while it
is of a more advanced design than any that we have contacted so far, it will
still need to be upgraded, though I think we can do it in a couple of hours
easily if we don't need it to act as a nexus."

"Seeing as Toria Ai Shas is in orbit, I would think that it would not be
needed. We can take our time planning, the upgrades to occur at a later date
or just leave well enough alone." Harry shrugged, "Thanks Steven, looks like
we are going to be sending a few people down shortly." he both thanked him
and warned him.

Turning back to the table Harry told Jack. "Get several teams of internal
security together to ride herd on the techs and remotes." Thinking about an
easy way to travel back and forth until the systems were online and working
at full power, Harry remembered the columns that he had keyed to work as
mini transfer stations for those who touched them, they were used pretty
successfully for the evacuation of Earth. "Might want to have Tonks carry
down a remote TS column, that way we can at least have a secure way of
moving back and forth to Atlantis."

As they planned Kevin sent for a remote transfer station to be brought up
and directed a hundred of his search and repair remotes to make their way to
the embarkation room.

"Aloria how long will it take for you to establish complete control of
Atlantis systems once they power up?" Harry asked out loud as he watched the
group of security people gather near the Astria.

"A minute, possibly a minute and a half once the new control crystals have
been inserted." Aloria responded.

"Once you have complete control I want all sectors locked down and battle
shields erected to all sections deemed deadly." Harry ordered, still looking
at the blueprints of Atlantis from the archives.

"One small problem, they never did install Battle shields on Atlantis, it's
on the blueprints, but according to the dump, they re not there." Aloria
apologized to Harry.

"That's not good." Neville said looking up from his display with concern. "I
was counting on those shields to keep the doors to those bizarre death traps
closed until we could deal with them."

"What if we enchant some shields and tied them into a secondary power
source, we could at least lock out everything but the central hub, and if we
travel back and forth by TS it should be at least a little safer." Jack
offered another way as he looked over his display with the blueprints of
Atlantis as he zoomed in at out over the plans, tracing the best places to
erect shields.

Leaning back in his chair Harry thought about it. "That might work at least
for the short term." Sitting back up Harry said. "Alright it will work for
now. Tonks you have a go, secure the area around the Astria and guard the
techs as they do a system restart on the main frame." Harry stood as he gave
her those orders, facing the group by the Astria. "Be prepared for trouble,
it looks like there might be some people on board Atlantis from some of the
readings, we do not know who or what they are so be careful."

Waving at Harry that she heard and understood, she yelled out in her best
drill instructor voice. "All right you lot you heard the boss, the sooner we
get this done the sooner we get to go back to snogging our other halves."

Shaking his head at Tonks antics and choice of a pep speach. "Establish a
connection, let's send them through." Harry told Steven.

Connecting the matter stream with the Atlantis Astria, Steven made sure the
matter stream was stable before calling out to the group waiting. "Connected
you are good to go."

XXXX

Down below in the Atlantis control Room Elizabeth Weir was getting
frustrated, nothing they did worked. The power was still being produced by
the Naquadah generators, they just could not get it to any of the systems.
And when they did the systems refused to accept the power. Getting reports
of strange ships flying over the city on the way to the mainland worried
her, the only thing she knew for a fact was that they were not Wraith ships
and they were evidently advanced, and she hoped peaceful. Stepping out on
the balcony that jutted out over the gate room she noticed the lights
flicker around the gate, just like it did when."John we have an incoming
wormhole." Elizabeth yelled over the headset.

"On my way." John replied as he turned around and ran back towards the gate
room halfway to the armory.

What else could go wrong now she thought as the wormhole flickered into
existence and settled down into the normal watery looking event horizon, she
watched as several people walked out of the star gate and start to scan the
area while others that came out next were carrying cases and moved to the
side as they looked around Another two looked to be controlling some type of
marble column, that they some how floated between them and set it down near
the front windows before she heard a sound that made her heart freeze.

It sounded like replicators.

Watching in horror she saw a steady stream of all black replicators crawl
over the top ring above the heads of those coming through the gate and down
the sides moving off to who knew where. "John replicators..." Elizabeth
breathed out in fright over the headset.

John put more effort into getting to the gate room as he heard the sounds of
his men opening fire without being ordered to do so.

Lira who was one of the repair officers from the rescued cruiser Selaes
stepped into Atlantis and looked around taking in the architecture and
noticing that this section at least appeared in decent shape.

Moving aside so that the others could get by her she noticed what looked
like a uniformed female standing on the jetty. "Looks like we have company."
Lira pointed out to her companions, just as some of those in uniform on this
level pointed what looked like weapons in their direction and opened fire at
the remotes coming through the gate.

Lira screamed in pain as something nicked her shoulder dropping her to the
floor bleeding from the wound, just as Tonks and the rest of the security
forces walked through the gate.

Tonks did not expect to walk into a war zone as she walked out of the gate.
Throwing up a shield in front of her she quickly took stock of the people on
the ground and released a couple of the twin's surprises from her belt.
Banishing a couple of the twin's portable swamps into the group of kneeling
soldiers who were firing at them, it quickly put an end to the projectiles
being fired off. "What the bloody hell is going on here." Tonks yelled at
the top of her lungs seeing people dressed in the same type of uniform as
the SGC people that had visited the city for negotiations.

Seeing some of the people get hit by the bullets and actually start to bleed
Elizabeth started to yell. "Stand down.Do not Fire.Hold your fire." Then
seeing the familiar uniforms on some of the people walking out of the gate,
Elizabeth cussed out loud as she yelled for her people to listen to her and
stop firing.

Flipping open her com and activating the fold space transceiver Tonks
yelled. "Harry, we are under attack. We have wounded, they are using some
type of projectile weapons."

XXXX

"Helps on the way Tonks." Harry told her as he instantly started to glow as
he merged with his core.

"Prepare to receive wounded.Security teams to the embarkation deck." Harry
ordered over the command channel, not broadcasting it city wide. Not wanting
to mar the excitement everyone was feeling seeing their new home. Looking
over to where Jack was now standing, Harry nodded his head, not about to
hold him back from what he felt like he had to do, he wasn't that big of a
hypocrite, He said. "Do what you have to, but I want that place secured. Be
safe." Harry said loud enough for Jack to hear as he passed his chair.
Placing his hand on the link panel Harry directed one of the remotes with
visual sensors to play back what was happening on Atlantis.

XXXX

Tapping into their magical cores and starting to glow softly Tonks and the
other security officers started to summon the weapons from the trapped
soldiers hands, and placed them in a pile off to one side for later
disposal. Hands moving around fast and furious, uniformed soldiers ended up
disarmed and bound as they were thrown to one side for later interrogation.

Sheppard followed by Teyla and Ronon made their way into the gate room just
as his men were being pulled out of what looked like swamps and bound in
glowing ropes, before being piled over at one end. All this happened without
them being touched by those standing in front of the gate and they were only
moving their arms.

Tonks seeing more soldiers entering the area sent the counter charm at the
portable swamps, causing them to dispel. "Seal those doors." Tonks ordered,
motioning towards the doors as she made her way towards the steps.

Jack followed by several squads of his ground forces and a cadre of Goblins
and a group of healers ran out of the gate in time to see Tonks stalking the
people up in the control room, binding them as she passed without stopping.
"Well shit." Jack cussed out loud as he looked around and noticed that for
the most part all the action was over with and there really was nothing to
do. Seeing that the injured were being tended to and those more seriously
wounded moved over to the remote transport column Jack pulled his fold space
com off of his belt. Jack watched Tonks levitate her prisoners down from the
control room and dump them with the others before he reported back to Harry.
"Lord Commander the area is secure."

"Tonks had everything under control by the time we exited the Astria, we
have the passageways sealed and I will leave the channel open as I
interrogate the prisoners." Jack informed Harry. Walking over towards the
group of bound prisoners Jack noticed one of the remotes was following him,
more than likely transmitting back up to Harry everything that was going on.
Close enough to see that half of those bound also had duct tape covering
their mouth, Jack shook his head and muttered how he was going to have a
long talk with the older version as soon as he saw him again.

Seeing a patch of an American flag on the shoulder of several of the
prisoners and a few other countries he was familiar with Jack swore as he
switched to Alteran and yelled out. "Shit.Stand down, their Earthers. What a
cluster fuck.Why the hell haven't the folks from the SGC  mentioned they had
people here.It would have avoided a lot of suffering." Jack grumbled under
his breath as he paced back and forth before the prisoners, stopping every
so often to check a uniform for a name.

Lantera who had followed Jack through the gate with a med team walked up to
him and put a hand on his shoulder stopping his muttering. When he turned to
face her she said. "Jack, frightening them needlessly is pointless."

Staring at her for a second Jack blinked before smirking. "Your right, if I
am going to frighten them it should be on purpose."

Sighing she turned away muttering about blood thirsty security officers.

"What was the extent of the injuries?" Jack asked before she got to far
away.

"Only two need more than a quick healing charm and they have already been
sent back. It looks like most of the damage was done by ricochets off of the
remotes shields." Lantera told him as she moved off to return by the remote
transfer point.

Sensing Tonks walking over Jack turned. "Would you separate out the ones
that did the actual shooting from the others, and take the shooters.Well
shit we don't have a place to put prisoners do we."

Wanting to laugh at his expression Tonks held it in for a moment then
thought what the hell, and started laughing. "Are you magical or not."

Walking over to the piled weapons she started to transmute them into cages
placed against the wall nearest the steps, out of the way, and motioned for
her team to start moving the prisoners into them.

Grinning sheepishly Jack turned his attention back to those sitting bound on
the floor. "Who is the leader here?" He asked in English as he looked them
over.

"I am." Came a voice off to one side by a short haired woman. "Dr. Elizabeth
Weir, leader of the Atlantis expedition."

Waving his hand at her, Jack dispelled her bonds and motioned for her to
stand.

"Thank you." Elizabeth said as she rubbed her arms to get the circulation
going again.

Harry's voice came from Jacks belt. "Tell me Dr. Weir, with thirty days left
until your government, with our help, establishes your first off world
colony, why you would endanger your acceptance into the Alliance of Great
Races by attacking our people."

Elizabeth paled as soon as she head that voice coming from the young mans
belt that was standing in front of her. The President was going to kill her
she thought. Looking down at John who had crawled his way over to her when
they first had been dropped in the pile, literally, she saw he was pale as
he too recognized the voice. Both of them looked at each other before
looking back over their shoulder towards a bound and duct taped Rodney
McKay. Turning back Elizabeth stammered for a second before she got out. "It
was a mistake, my men were not aiming at you but the replicators that
followed your people out of the gate."

John who was staring at the replicators that were still in the area, and
they looked like they were taking the gate apart spoke out. "We have not had
the best of luck with replicators and did not know you had tame ones."

"Replicators, why would you call the remotes." Kevin said as he walked over
from the remote TS having just arrived, then stopped as he put the pieces
together. "NO.Tell me they were not so foolish to pervert the Astromechs."
Looking form the prisoners still on the floor back to Jack. "Please tell me
they didn't do the unthinkable."

Jack nodded his head not wanting to say any more than that, evidently Kevin
had thought the Ancients in the Pegasus galaxy would be different.

"We should just send this whole abomination into the sun and be done with
it." Kevin spat out angrily as he walked over to his techs to supervise the
system restart.

Tilting his head Jack watched the Maintenance engineer walk up the steps
muttering the whole way. "As leader of your people Dr. Weir, will you give
us your parole?" he asked before turning back to face her.

"What's that mean exactly, I want to be sure we understand the terms so
there is not any further misunderstandings." Elizabeth said slowly as she
looked around at her bound command staff.

"No terms, you will not interfere with any Alteran personal as they inspect
and initiate repairs to the Atlantis command systems, we need to know the
full extant of the damage to Atlantis if we are to make a determination on
whether or not it would be wise to repair the city or as Kevin so vocally
wishes, destroy it." Harry told her through the communicator.

Looking over at the soldiers that had been placed in the cages Elizabeth
pointed at them before asking. "What about them."

"They stay right were they are, until we have determined appropriate
punishment." Jack told her coldly.

Not liking the sound of that but knowing they were no match for their
powers, she nodded her head. Raising her hand towards her headset, she
stopped mid move when the woman with the hair that kept changing colors
pierced her with her gaze. "I am just going to contact everyone and tell
them what is going on, if that is alright with you." Elizabeth said eyes
never leaving the face of the woman that had so easily taken them captive.

Tapping the side of her headset she started to explain to her crew. "This is
Weir. Currently Alteran's are moving about Atlantis, These people are the
ancients that built this city. If they approach you be courteous and
helpful, do not interfere in their work as they start to make repairs and
inspect the city Weir out."

"Is that good enough?" Elizabeth asked eyes still on Tonks.

"It will do for now." Jack told her as he walked away in the direction of
the steps. "Release them Tonks. While I find out from Kevin how long before
we have system restart."

Smirking Tonks snapped her fingers just like a house elf, and dispelled the
bonds releasing all of them at once, though she left the duct tape in place.

Tapping his own headset John added his authority to the mix. "This is
Colonel Sheppard, You are ordered to stand down. I repeat stand down, secure
all weapons do not interfere with the Alteran's as they move about their
city."

Turning to Elizabeth John told her quietly. "This is not good I told General
O'Neill he should make the time to let them know we were here."

"We both agreed at the time that it could wait until we started the
colonization project, it did not seem like a good idea to bother them any
more after our last visit." Elizabeth winced in remembrance.

"Ouch." Rodney's voice swore from behind them.

Pointing his thumb over his shoulder John asked wincing at the thought of
McKay being around the Alteran's . "What about him."

Looking over her shoulder, then at the line of cages along the wall.
Elizabeth replied. "Do you think they would mind making another cage?"

Standing on the jetty above the two, Jack had to smile at the banter and
hoped that McKay person learned his lessen, though if he even looked at the
boys the wrong way again he would use him to practice his human
transfiguration homework, and turn him into a pincushion, well at least part
of him he thought evilly.

Kevin walked out of the control room and joined Jack. "All the control
crystals have been replaced, it will be another five minutes until full
power restart."

"Thanks Kevin, What do you think about the by-passes they came up with?"
Jack asked as he pointed down at the floor and the group of milling
scientist that were too leery to attempt to come up the stairs.

"To be honest," Kevin started to say as he leaned on the balcony. "It is
probably the only reason they are not dead right now. If they had been able
to access the controls fully they probably would have unknowingly released
the horrors trapped in this place."

"That's not good, not good at all." Jack said facing him now. "You plan on
overriding those sections right?"

Smirking Kevin laughed causing some of those milling below to look up. "Oh,
I think I can manage that."

"Main frame coming on line now." Lira called out from behind them.

"Lord Commander T minus three minutes to full power, system main frame now
up and running," Kevin said loud enough for Jacks com unit to pick up.

"Once you have full power back online, at least as much as you can, Jack
bring Weir and Sheppard back up here with you so we can find out what the
Bloody Hell is going on." Harry told them before closing the connection.

"Will do Harry." Jack replied as he caught the attention of the two people
in question by pointing at them, and motioned them to come up.

Looking at each other for a moment they both slowly made their way to the
steps and climbed them to join the one who seemed to be in charge of the
Alteran's down here.

Jack waited until they had stopped near him before saying. "I need to make
an announcement to your crew. We are about to do a full system restart and
bring power back online, we need to warn your crew so the system is not
overloaded at first with your people trying to bring the systems you were
using back up." Jack explained.

"Right, I can do that." Elizabeth said with more conviction then she felt.
Tapping her headset, "Attention all personal, system restart in." Elizabeth
paused as she looked over for an answer.

"Two minutes." Kevin told her.

"System restart in two minutes, lets turn off as much as we can so we don't
blow the fuses. Weir out." Elizabeth told them.

While her people were doing as she asked, she stood there nervously, as she
wondered what was going to happen now.

"System restart in ten." Lira called out before counting down.

The lights started to flicker and then they stayed on as system after system
came to life as power flowed through the relays once again.

Atlantis had once again come back to life.

"How long do you need to stay down here, until you feel comfortable with
setting up a repair crew schedule?" Jack asked Kevin.

"Most of the day I think, why?" Kevin replied looking back at his repair
techs doing their jobs in the control room.

"Make sure you take security with you as you root around in the innards of
this place, we don't want any accidents, intentional or otherwise." Jack
informed him in Alteran.

Waiting until Kevin nodded his head in acceptance, Jack then turned and
pointed at both Weir and Sheppard.

"Lets go the Lord Commander wishes to talk to the both of you." Jack told
them as he started down the steps, not caring if they followed or not.

Scott lent me his eyes and brain and provided the wonderful job of editing
this chapter.

Sorry about the long delay but real life and the death of my father delayed
things, expect a chapter once a month for now