Chapter III
Mackey and Zelenka were working in their lab, like they usually did, when all of sudden an alarm went off. Mackey jumped out of his chair, in his hypochondriac way and started to look around. Zelenka just followed him with his eyes and soon realized that the alarm was coming from Rodney’s laptop.
DR. ZELENKA: Rodney, calm down. It’s just your laptop.
DR. MACKEY: Yes, I know. But it is always prudent to be cautious.
As he slowly approached the screen, his eyes became wider. He sat down, pressed a few buttons read the result displayed in the computer screen and jumped out of his seat again and ran out the door, completely ignoring Zelenka inquiries as to what was going on. A few minutes later we arrives at Stargate Operations completely hyperventilation like he just ran a marathon.
DR. MACKEY: Stop.
Amelia Banks was sitting at the helm. The main console in Stargate Operations, the one that controlled the basic functions of the Stargate, was considered the helm because from there she could control the basic functions of the Star Drive.
AMELIA BANKS: Stop, what?
DR. MACKEY: Stop. Stop everything. Stop the ship.
Amelia didn’t had time to stop the ship, Mackey reached the console and pushed her aside, not aggressively just enough so he could operate the console himself. He stopped the ship using the emergency shutdown, soon after that Woolsey came out of his office at the end of the corridor.
MR. WOOLSEY: What’s going on? What happened?
AMELIA BANKS: I don’t know, sir. Dr. Mackey dropped us out of hyperspace.
MR. WOOLSEY: Doctor?
DR. MACKEY: Atlantis found it. At first I didn’t realized what she had found, because I forgot that the program was running. We left the Milky Way a few days ago, I was supposed to shut off the scanner program, good thing I forgot, otherwise she wouldn’t have found it.
Sheppard arrives at Stargate Operations in time to listen to Rodney ramblings.
COL. SHEPPARD: What’s going on? What did Atlantis found?
DR. MACKEY: An Icarus Type Planet.
MR. WOOLSEY: What? In the Pegasus Galaxy?
COL. SHEPPARD: Yeah?! Isn’t naquadria a non-natural element? It was created by some Goa’uld a long time ago, right? How can it exist in the Pegasus Galaxy?
DR. MACKEY: I don’t know. Maybe the Goa’uld came here to experiment without being discovered by his fellow System Lords.
MR. WOOLSEY: Is that possible?
COL. SHEPPARD: Why not? I mean if the Asgard did it, why not the Goa’uld.
DR. MACKEY: Not “the” Goa’uld. One Goa’uld, Thanos if memory serves me right. Who’s to say that before he went to Langara he didn’t do some experiments somewhere else? That’s beside the point, the point is that Atlantis was detected an Icarus Type Planet.
COL. SHEPPARD: I’ll contact Stargate Command to inform them of this. Where’s the planet, Rodney?
DR. MACKEY: It’s on the edge of the galaxy. It’s one of the first planets in Pegasus, if you came from Earth. If you came from Atlantica, the water planet that Atlantis was, then it’s one of the last planets of the galaxy.
COL. SHEPPARD: Yes, Rodney. We get the point.
MR. WOOLSEY: Do we have a Stargate Address for that planet?
AMELIA BANKS: Doesn’t appear to have one, sir.
MR. WOOLSEY: Col. Sheppard, go to Stargate Command and inform them of the situation. We will see if we can borrow a Stargate from a planet nearby.
COL. SHEPPARD: Yes, sir. Banks, dial the gate.
DR. MACKEY: No, Banks. Don’t dial the gate.
COL. SHEPPARD: Why, not?
DR. MACKEY: Look… Right now Atlantis is sitting in the middle of empty space, without a point of origin you can’t get to anywhere using the gate.
MR. WOOSLEY: So we wait. Can we do a small hyperspace jump into the naquadria planet and use it’s coordinates to operate the gate?
DR. MACKEY: Yes. That would work. I need to do some calculations, so we don’t accidently drop out inside the planet. That would be very bad.
MR. WOOLSEY: Ok, Doctor… Make it happen.
