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Cleaning Up After The Ancients - Chapter 41
🕑 Added 2025-01-22 21:58:37 +0000 UTCChapter 41 - The Never Ending Shuffle
Looking over Carson Beckett’s shoulder at the near line of people waiting outside her office, Elizabeth Weir held back a sigh before focusing back on the person who was currently asking her permission for yet another potentially dangerous thing.
“And you’re sure this genetronic resequencer can fix Grodin?”
“Oh aye.” Carson agreed with an emphatic nod. “Pretty sure now that Evan was thinking of using the standard combination of chromosomal inducer and cellular regeneration field that the Lantean’s went with when they wanted to flip their sex. And aye, that would work. But since we have sample’s of Grodin’s original DNA just lying around we can bypass that whole mess and just use a genetronic resequencer to turn him back to his original self.”
She had been extraordinarily uncertain about allowing Carson to go through with exposing himself to any version of the Ancient repository of knowledge. However four days in and he’d yet to show any of the symptoms Jack O’Neill had with his experience, so she was reaching a point of being hopefully optimistic that her concern might have been misplaced.
“What about potential risks from the two different procedures?”
“I cannae say none since we're dealing with Lantean technology.” Carson began as he seemed to consider the question. “However assuming the equipment's still in workable condition, there'd be a better chance of me winning the national lottery then something going wrong.”
Elizabeth gave a permissive nod. “Then you have my approval to go ahead, assuming Grodin's agreement of course .”
That did bring to the fore a question she had been hoping to ask Carson though, and given the circumstances she couldn't think of a reason not to do it now.
“While we're on the subject, have you discovered any potential long term side effects from the Thalia device?”
“Surprisingly no.” Carson admitted with a bemused shake of his head. “I even ran him through the Lantean scanners, and there wasn't so much as a nucleotide out of place.”
“Then it would be safe for human use?” Elizabeth floated as she considered the three requests Doctor Heightmeyer had forwarded to her.
“It should be.” Carson said as his brow furrowed in thought. “But I'm not sure why anyone would…”
He trailed off mid sentence as a look of abashed realization flashed across his face.
“Ah, well, I suppose it would be a subject of interest to some, though medically speaking I would suggest anyone who wanted to directly study the effects of the technology in such a manner discuss the issue with Doctor Heightmeyer first.”
“I'll keep that in mind.” Elizabeth said as she shot him an amused smile. “Is there anything else?”
“No.” Carson said as he pulled himself out of the chair and glanced over at the still growing line outside of her office. “Good luck with the rush.”
With that he walked out, giving a passing nod Major Sheppard as he passed.
Letting out a sigh, Elizabeth took a moment to get up and stretch before motioning for Sheppard to come in.
“Busy day.” He offered in an amused tone as he looked back at others outside before walking over and sitting down.
“You don’t know the half of it.” Elizabeth returned tiredly as she sat back down. “So what did you need? And please don’t say more men, Colonel Caldwell is already annoyed enough that we’ve effectively downed the Daedalus to a skeleton crew.”
“More men would be nice.” Sheppard admitted in a teasing tone before setting a binder down on her desk. “But in this case it’s more that I finished re-arranging the stargate teams so we can integrate the people that came over on the Daedalus.”
“Paper?” Elizabeth questioned with a raised eyebrow as she picked up the binder and began flipping through the pages.
“New security precaution.” Sheppard admitted with a grimace. “After Hermiod found that Wraith virus on the Daedalus, General O’Neill didn’t want to take any chances. So till we can confirm all our systems are clear of infection, it's paper for anything Secret and above.”
“I assume he’s aware that we have a rather limited supply of paper to work with out here?” Elizabeth put forward with a frown as she considered how long that would likely take with everyone’s current workload.
“He promised to send us more when we get around to returning the Daedalus’s extra ZPM.” Sheppard admitted. “Even offered to include the old typewriter he used to use to fill out mission reports at the SGC.”
“You don’t say.” Elizabeth drolled as she fought down the urge to giggle at the mental image that conjured up.
“Well, I don’t see any problems with this.” She continued as she passed the binder back to him. “And I’m sure Lieutenant Ford will be happy to hear he’s finally getting his own team.”
“Probationary team.” Sheppard corrected with an apologetic grin. “Not a hundred percent sure he can handle the command aspect without letting it go to his head. But I want the new teams run by people who have experience dealing with the Wraith, and the only one’s who’d be better in the position are already running teams of their own.”
Which was really just an unfortunate fact of being as disconnected as they were from Earth’s general personnel base.
“I’ll send his team on a few low priority missions to start with then.” Elizabeth offered, knowing that was what he was asking for even if he wasn’t directly asking it. “Do you have any idea about who you want to fill his spot on your team?”
Sheppard avoided looking in her eye at that, a sure sign he was about to say something he didn’t think she would approve of. “Figured I could put that off till after McKay gets back.”
“After Doctor McKay returns we’ll be returning to Earth for a full debriefing by the IOA.” Elizabeth pointed out, the fact that they had been able to dodge that till now resting solely on the fact that she had been able to defer the IOS’s requests under the idea that they were busy assisting in the recovery of multiple Ancient warships.
“Can’t say I didn’t consider that.” Sheppared returned with a wane grin. “Though speaking of the IOA, have they said anything about bringing Teyla along yet?”
“Yes.” Elizabeth confirmed as she hid a smile. “They were a bit concerned about a possible connection to the Wraith given her newly discovered genetics, however General O’Neill was apparently able to talk them around to allowing it.”
She had been somewhat surprised at that, but she supposed the man had more than enough experience dealing with the Jaffa to know that sometimes you just had to accept the risk.
“She’ll be happy to hear that.” Sheppard said, grinning in a way that suggested he was also personally happy with the decision. “She’s kind of wanted to see the real Earth since that thing with the aliens from M5S-224.”
“They also want us to bring the Ancient along.” Elizabeth added in with a sigh, hoping he’d have a better idea of how to accomplish that then she did.
“You remind them that the Ancient’s his own person?” Sheppard put forward skeptically.
“It may have come up.” Elizabeth admitted with a grimace, having been less than successful in getting through to them that it was very possible he would just straight up refuse. “However, they seem to have faith in my abilities to get it done.”
Sheppard shot her an awkward smile. “Well, good luck with that.”
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Author’s Notes: Jokes on you, Eventus wants to visit Earth, he has sights to see, and horribly lopsided deals to make. Maybe even women to meet.
Comments
Fateor
He's also wants to go sightseeing in the various places he wasn't able to in his original life. :D
Fateor
The IOA is going to be fun. Eventus: "You want space guns? Well here's a list of things I want." Everyone Else in the Galaxy: "Don't give the humans space guns!" Eventus: "You know what, just for that I'm going to give you the really nice space guns, assuming you give me the list of things I want."
anthony corcoran
yep the IOA is going to stick their foot in their mouths arent they. I,e lets talk down to the inventors of the technology we use to act all superior to everyone else. All while forgetting you cant claim salvage on things that were never really abandoned in the first place or that still has people around to claim them back.
Rockinalice
Though Evan is likely going to point out to the Former High Chancellor that it's his fault for not keeping a tighter Leash on Janus that Evan got left behind
Rockinalice
Though Evan is likely dreading the fact that he is going to be in the Same Galaxy as Janus with the possibility of running into him. Good news he will be able to see if any city ships are left in the Milky Way by sending the Signal out an seeing what responds back. Because there has to be a few city ships left in Avalon even if SG1 never finds them
Pearl of the Orient
You're off by a few million tonnes. The Aurora is 3.5km length by 1km high and 250 meters wide
Darkarma
"So if I go to earth I can have anything I want to eat and drink." "Yes." "Alright. I heard about this dom perignon, and beluga caviar." "...I'm sure the FBI has some that was confiscated."
Talsen
Eventus is going to go on a spree finding random stuff he knows where is located back in the Milky Way.
Marius Petrauskas
nice
Cesar gonzalez
Merlin is gonna get a unforeseen visitor
Jarrik32
"Bring the ancient along" They say. Eventus: "Sure thing, where do you want me to park my 400,000 tonne warship? I was watching one of your movies last night, Independence day to be precise, and it's given me some ideas..."
James W
Can't wait for the meeting of the minds that is Jack O'Neill and Eventus...
Wratus
They are so gonna regret requesting that they bring Eventus.
Asharzal
"Bring the Ancient along". Said Ancient is effectively the head of state of the Lantean Domain and owner of Atlantis. Together with nearly 200 other Lanteans they're bringing back.
