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Starting Universe: SGU – Stargate Universe

Chapter 2 has been spilt into manageable chunks, will be posted after every 2 or more days.

Chapter 2 will be posted onto Sufficient Velocity and then after 2 days the chapter will be posted onto SpaceBattles.

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[USER=6653] Vianca[/USER]

On Stargate Atlantis episode 4 of season 5, The Daedalus Variations, the Daedalus had the alternate reality drive installed. In Stargate SG1, you have the Mirrors allowing universe travel if a mirror exists in that universe.

So, said drive with a few modifications (and R.O.B. intervention) should allow for universe travel.

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Rush will "fall" in line and learn his place in the following chapters. Plus, I don't think Rush having a guard will keep him protected from the rest of the crew, considering said guard could kill him and claim that he attacked him/her.

Just so you know, despite having different chapters in different states of completion, I can still change the chapter and link the other remaining chapters to any changes.

I am open to suggestions or any ideas so share them and they might make their way into the fanfic.

D1truOverlord

As a Gears of War fan, there will be a visit to the Gears universe at some point.

I would like to thank [USER=8596] Battleship_Fusou[/USER], [USER=4458] Ramble[/USER], [USER=314] Drich[/USER] and [USER=13774] Ryven Razgriz[/USER] for inspiring me to write this with the self inserts they have done.

It seems that the people count at different intervals to three, Athena thought as she counted the time between people entering the gate. Eli, who was three people in front of her was already handed a crate and began to walk towards the gate. Just as it was her turn to receive one of the supply boxes she noticed that the young genius hold his breath when entering the event horizon. She had to suppress a laughter as she got hold of the box that was given to her and stepped onto the ramp. By now the person in front of her had stepped through the gate. Athena slowly counted from 21 to 23 in her mind to not be too fast and then went through herself. And once again I'm heading into the unknown.

When Athena exited the Stargate on the other side she didn't merely step through like on earlier occasions. Instead she flew out of the gate and two meters behind the gate she fell on top of the box she had carried in front of her. Her arms had luckily dampened the impact; however, it didn't change the fact though that it still hurt like hell. Nevertheless, she quickly got her bearings together and remembered that there were still people behind her when she had entered the gate. So, she quickly got herself and her box out of harm's way and went to a side of the room they all had arrived in.

Slowly she took in her surroundings. The only light was provided by the gate's event horizon. To her right was the gate out of which still people and crates poured. To her left there were two staircases leading towards a balustrade. Despite the flickering lighting of the event horizon she could see that the people around her were all in various states of distress, despair and injury. Just as the woman looked at the shimmering surface again another two persons exited the gate after quite some pause. One of them was Sergeant Greer, the same man that had left earlier on with Colonel Young and who she thought was in detention.

"Greer? Where's Colonel Young?"

"He was right behind me."

Both he and Scott turned towards the gate and just on cue another person came flying through the gate. But unlike the others that had merely flown one or two meters and then landed on all fours the person flew literally through the room, touched down after 5 meters and slid a few further. Just when the person had stopped the gate shut down and two bursts of steam or whatever it was came out from the left and right side of the gate. Athena was lucky that she hadn't picked a place right beside the gate as she could feel the heat of whatever it was. As quickly as the bursts had started they vanished again and left the room in eerie silence and darkness. All around the room flashlights were lit and Lieutenant Scott and Sergeant Greer hurried to the person who had flown through the room, shooing people out of the way to get through. The person turned out to be Colonel Young. Athena saw that a few words were exchanged between the Lieutenant and the Colonel and then the latter passed out.

"TJ!", Scott shouted with panic in his voice and a blonde woman wearing the Icarus base's black uniform came forward. It was Tamara Johansen, one of the base's medical officers.

"I'm coming!", She rushed to her superior officer and went to work immediately.

Considering that Athena couldn't help with Colonel Young's injuries in any way without blowing her cover, she decided to take of her backpack and to sit down on the floor. The events of the last few minutes came back to her mind. They had all just escaped an exploding planet which had been under attack, they were thrown around after a hasty evacuation to a place no one of them knew anything about and most of them were injured in one way or the other. She let her head sink into her hands with her elbows resting on her knees and breathed out heavily.

Suddenly a strange high-pitched whine that could be heard in the room.

"What is that?", asked quite some of the stranded people.

The sound became higher and louder until some kind of wave that shifted all colours for a short moment went through the room and the people. A shuddering sound later it was gone again. Athena looked around and saw Lieutenant Scott and Sergeant Greer talking again. By trying to tone in to their discussion she got the last part of their dialogue.

"Nobody leaves this room", Scott ordered while he turned to one of the exits.

"Yes, sir", Greer responded and looked to down towards TJ who tended to her patient.

"Eli! Now!" Scott had turned around again to get the attention of Eli who looked like he was breathing heavily. After a few seconds he got a hang of himself and exited the room together with Scott.

Athena looked around the room to see whether there was anything she could do. Her eyes settled on one of two columns behind each of the two staircases of around one-meter height with a plane on top that was inclined towards the door at the opposite site of the Stargate. Her face brightened and a smile appeared. Now that looked suspiciously like terminals! Finally, the blonde got up and dug her way through to one of the columns.

"Can someone please lend me a bit of light?", she questioned towards the crowd. A man with black hair and an oval face was stepping forward. He wore a white shirt with slightly darker, thin vertical stripes and light brown trousers. In his right hand he held a flashlight. Athena recognized him as Dr. Adam Brody, one of the engineers of the base.

"How can I help you?", he asked as he reached her at the terminal.

"Shine the light on this console, please. I want to try whether I can get us some better light."

Brody positioned himself next to Athena and directed the light at the console. This way she was able to read the buttons.

"The descriptions on the buttons are Ancient!", Athena happily exclaimed. Though this was not entirely unexpected considering that the Stargates had been built by the Ancients and this place, whatever it was, likely had been as well. "Let's see", she mumbled and let her eyes wander along the buttons that were located next to a large, black surface which might have been a display. After a quick search among the buttons she found one that looked promising and pressed it. An electronic noise could be heard, the console in front of Athena and Brody, the console on the other column and the lights inside the room turned on.

"We've got power!", Brody announced happily. "Yeah, we've got power."

"Thank you for providing your flashlight", Athena said and looked back at the console, curious about what she might find in the computer.

"You're welcome", the engineer responded and went back to a group of other civilians. Just as he went away Lieutenant Scott entered the room again.

"Okay, can I have everybody's attention, please?" Athena turned to him but noticed that she was one of the few who did so. "All right, please listen." This time Scott was louder, but most of the crowd still ignored him. "Hey, listen up!", he finally shouted. Now he did have everyone's attention. Athena needed to stifle a laugh. As it reminded her of the time she spent in Atlantis, trying to get her fellow scientists attention especially McKay's.

"What is going on?" The question had come from Senator Armstrong. Athena rolled her eyes. Of course, it was the politician who questioned first.

"We are on an Ancient... spaceship." A spaceship! That would explain that strange wave from earlier! Athena got excited right away by the thought of being on an Ancient spaceship. Granted, she had been on Atlantis which was a giant city ship and she'd been on the Aurora class battle cruiser they had found a few years ago, but it was always an adventure to get a look at a new kind of Ancient technology.

The crowd's reaction however wasn't as cheerful as Athena's and Senator Armstrong voiced out his disbelief: "What?!"

"Tha-that's all I've got. Now wha-what that means is that..." Scott's explanation didn't get very far as he was interrupted by the senator.

"That means you need to use the Stargate to get us all back home."

"Yeah", one of the women agreed and others in the crowd nodded.

"That is definitely on the list of things to do, sir, but I think right now..." Again, Scott got interrupted.

"You can consider that an order."

"We're working on it... sir", Scott answered in a piqued manner.

"Now I need to speak to the person responsible for this. Where is Dr. Rush?!", the senator demanded. With that Scott finally lost his temper.

"Ju-just shut up for a second!"

That got the senator furious. "How dare you talk to..." Suddenly the man gasps and crumbles in pain. His daughter Chloe and the Lieutenant Scott immediately rushed to help him.

"Dad? Dad! Please!", Chloe exclaimed.

"Medic!", Athena called into the rough direction of TJ.

Scott meanwhile looked around for help. "Water?" He asked around. "Water."

The senator stuttered something incoherent.

Chloe looked around and spotted a box. "Here. Sit down", she said and together with Scott she led her father to the box so that he could sit on it. TJ also came after them.

"My pills", Armstrong said and pulled out a small bottle of his jacket. He opened it, got out a few pills and downed them with a shaking hand. Chloe sat next to him and tried to comfort her father. TJ meanwhile had started to take the man's pulse.

"Look. I'm sorry." Lieutenant Scott talked again. "I-I'm just trying to explain the situation. We are on a ship, but we have no idea where we are in relation to Earth. Now with respect, sir, the reason you may be having a hard time breathing right now is because... the ship's life support is not functioning properly. Dr. Rush is working on that right now." He turned around towards the crowd. "Brody? Park? Athena?"

A woman with brown hair reaching just below her shoulders, wearing a violet wool jacket with long sleeves above a white blouse with black vertical stripes raised her hand. "Here!" It was Dr. Lisa Park. A good friend of Athena. They both had met each other on the flight to Icarus base and had shared their meals here and then.

Dr. Brody answered as well. "Here."

"Also, here", Athena said.

"Okay, good", Lieutenant Scott looked at them. "You three are with me."

"But I just got these consoles online!" Athena gestured towards the console behind where she was standing.

"No. Nobody touch anything yet! Dr. Rush needs your help. Everybody else... just stay calm, stay put. Please."

"Stay put." A man with brown hair and a round face spoke up. It was Dr. Dale Volker, an astrophysicist. "What do you mean, you're just going like that?"

"Yes, we have to ensure that we won't suffocate so that we can work on dialling back to Earth", Scott exclaimed. "So please just do as I said." He turned his attention to Sergeant Greer. "Greer, you're coming with us."

"Yes, sir."

Scott motioned for the three civilians to follow and together they went out of the room.

Please comment and I would welcome any help or corrections to be made within this self insert.