Three point four seconds later it was over and Julia had arrived on the Tempest.
“Well that sucks,” exclaimed Julia, “I didn’t feel a thing” .
“Of course you didn’t honey you weren’t even matter.” said the Dr. in a patronising voice, “You can’t expect to feel anything when you have anything to feel with.
“Why thank you for stating the obvious Jacob, I could not expect anything less from you.”
“You brought it upon yourself...” muttered the Doctor.
“Would you stop it you two, what did the colonel say, interjected the airman on Julia’s left.
After the quick altercation with the Dr. that always wanted more attention Julia was able to turn her attention to her surroundings. The room she stood in could only be considered the gateroom for the biggest and in reality the only feature of the whole room was the gate. To Julia’s unpracticed eye it looked quite different from the gate she had just stepped through on Earth if anything it looked newer. Instead of being simple metal the symbols on the ring where illuminated by soft blue lights, they gave the gate an eerie glow.
Behind the gate was a metal cylinder, a plug, it was just the right shape to plug the stargate when not in use, blocking any connection when it is in place. It was lightly adorned with a small etched border on it’s face that seemed to Julia to be able to blend quite artistically with the stargate when it was put into place. It was one of the fine touches made by the British navy when they commissioned the ship and one that she had missed when she had first glanced around the room.
As she descended the ramp, Julia noticed that near the door there was a glass window and just as her group left the room the technician Sgt. Williams who was manning the gate plugged it and joined them in the hallway.
“Welcome aboard the Tempest. Unfortunately I am the only one here to welcome you because everyone else is busy either with the frenzy following our passing through the debris field or the departure of our first ground mission.” said the Sergeant.
“Well we are here to help so if you could direct us where we could be the most useful that would be greatly appreciated,” responded one of the other scientists.
“Of course, most of the injured have been moved to the infirmary you should probably look there,” suggested the gatekeeper to the medics who had come with Julia and the others. The Sergeant Continued: [i]“Most of the damage was in the bridge tower, last I heard there was a broken conduit up there.”
“Excellent it is always fun to play with broken superconductors, one misstep and you get a nice little shock,” joked Jacob, “Well best go see what we can do.”
The group prepared to leave separating the supplies between those who needed them and Sgt. William returned to his post and unplugged the gate leaving the group to themselves. Soon enough everything was repacked and the group was on its way, eventually they reached an elevator that climbed the bridge tower and the group parted ways. The medics continued on to the infirmary while the scientist and airmen took the elevator.
When the elevators doors closed it was like Dr Moore just noticed that Julia had followed them into the elevator: “What are you doing here?” questioned the Doctor.
“I was told to report to the captain who could be found on the bridge,” answered Julia.
“Well stay out of our way you are not part of our team even if others might have thought so.”
“Moore,” warned one of the scientist.
“I don’t care. You know what. We don’t even want you to walk in with us we want you to wait outside until we are done presenting ourselves and have started working before you come onto the bridge.”
Frustrated Julia turned to the others: “What? Are you going to let him get away with this?” A few feet shuffled but otherwise it seemed that even the elevator held its breath.
“Fine then. I’ll wait,” surrendered Julia.
Jacob Moore left the elevator with a little smug smile followed solemnly by the others. Just as the door was about to shut Julia stepped out and looked around a bit for somewhere to go a little lost about what to do now.