Post by Slagathor on Jan 22, 2010 12:01:45 GMT
Part 8 – Effect and Cause
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They stood in the cavernous and long dormant Time Tunnel complex, deep beneath the Arizona desert.
“How many times did you transfer your scientists?” the Doctor asked.
“At least 40 to 50 times,” Ann MacGregor answered.
“And they always ending up somewhere, even if the transfer was not completely stable?”
“Yes,”
“So there was probably some outside influence that changed things,” the Doctor concluded.
“Like what?” asked Carter.
“Like someone trying to use a Stargate as a time portal,”
“But Tony and Doug were lost decades ago,” MacGregor insisted.
“Sometimes the future affects the past,” smirked the Doctor. “Gives cause and effect a new dimension, literally.”
“In trying to save them, we caused them to be lost,” Carter mumbled.
“Yeah. Ironic, isn’t it?”
“Why can’t we use your Tardis. It’s obviously more advanced alien technology,” Ann MacGregor suggested.
“Oh, so true. But the Tardis is a conveyance. I can go anywhere in time and space. Unfortunately, your missing scientists are beyond time and space. They’re in subtemporal anti-quantum transitive state.” The Doctor saw the questioning looks on there faces. “Limbo, OK?” He turned back to the control panels. “The Time Tunnel will have to bring them back.”
“But, the Time Tunnel doesn’t have any operational power,” Ann reminded them.
“But I do. I’ll need to integrate some of the Tardis systems and power into the Time Tunnel. The problem is figuring out compatible interfaces, or we might have some interestingly dangerous side effects.”
Just then Cameron Mitchell and Daniel Jackson came running in with a very large envelope. They handed it to him.
“Excuse me, what is this?”
“We found this large envelope taped to a wall,” Jackson explained. The writing read ‘Get this envelope to the Doctor, ASAP’. In the bottom corner were two initials, ‘H.K.’
The Doctor opened the envelope and pulled out the contents. He laid the large sheets of paper out on a table.
“They look like technical specs,” Carter comment. “But I don’t recognize the symbols.”
“It’s a plan for interfacing the Tardis with the Tunnel’s 1960s electronics.”
“Who would know the Doctor was going to be here?”
“Apparently, H.K. did.”
“Heywood Kirk?” Ann MacGregor wondered. “How could General Kirk know? Even if he saw us when he was waking up…”
“We don’t have time to figure that now. According to these papers, the half-life of your radiation bath’s tracking isotope means we have less than an hour to recover Phillips and Newman.”
For the next 40 minutes everyone did exactly as the Doctor instructed, working feverishly to complete the connections between the Tardis and the Time Tunnel. Even House refrained from his usual sarcastic comments.
“OK, all the circuits are open, ready for power,” MacGregor announced.
“I’m starting the phased power increase,” the Doctor’s voice called from inside the Tardis.
Ann McGregor watched as the lights of the oval ‘ribs’ of the Time Tunnel turned on. As much as she had hated the Tunnel over the years, it was also like seeing an old friend come back to life. Now, maybe the Tunnel could bring Doug and Tony back to life too.
“Temporal oscillations are holding,” Carter yelled to the Doctor.
“I’m trying to establish a time fix on Cliffport, Maine, September 10, 1978.”
“No,” yelled the Doctor, as he heard on an explosion.
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They stood in the cavernous and long dormant Time Tunnel complex, deep beneath the Arizona desert.
“How many times did you transfer your scientists?” the Doctor asked.
“At least 40 to 50 times,” Ann MacGregor answered.
“And they always ending up somewhere, even if the transfer was not completely stable?”
“Yes,”
“So there was probably some outside influence that changed things,” the Doctor concluded.
“Like what?” asked Carter.
“Like someone trying to use a Stargate as a time portal,”
“But Tony and Doug were lost decades ago,” MacGregor insisted.
“Sometimes the future affects the past,” smirked the Doctor. “Gives cause and effect a new dimension, literally.”
“In trying to save them, we caused them to be lost,” Carter mumbled.
“Yeah. Ironic, isn’t it?”
“Why can’t we use your Tardis. It’s obviously more advanced alien technology,” Ann MacGregor suggested.
“Oh, so true. But the Tardis is a conveyance. I can go anywhere in time and space. Unfortunately, your missing scientists are beyond time and space. They’re in subtemporal anti-quantum transitive state.” The Doctor saw the questioning looks on there faces. “Limbo, OK?” He turned back to the control panels. “The Time Tunnel will have to bring them back.”
“But, the Time Tunnel doesn’t have any operational power,” Ann reminded them.
“But I do. I’ll need to integrate some of the Tardis systems and power into the Time Tunnel. The problem is figuring out compatible interfaces, or we might have some interestingly dangerous side effects.”
Just then Cameron Mitchell and Daniel Jackson came running in with a very large envelope. They handed it to him.
“Excuse me, what is this?”
“We found this large envelope taped to a wall,” Jackson explained. The writing read ‘Get this envelope to the Doctor, ASAP’. In the bottom corner were two initials, ‘H.K.’
The Doctor opened the envelope and pulled out the contents. He laid the large sheets of paper out on a table.
“They look like technical specs,” Carter comment. “But I don’t recognize the symbols.”
“It’s a plan for interfacing the Tardis with the Tunnel’s 1960s electronics.”
“Who would know the Doctor was going to be here?”
“Apparently, H.K. did.”
“Heywood Kirk?” Ann MacGregor wondered. “How could General Kirk know? Even if he saw us when he was waking up…”
“We don’t have time to figure that now. According to these papers, the half-life of your radiation bath’s tracking isotope means we have less than an hour to recover Phillips and Newman.”
For the next 40 minutes everyone did exactly as the Doctor instructed, working feverishly to complete the connections between the Tardis and the Time Tunnel. Even House refrained from his usual sarcastic comments.
“OK, all the circuits are open, ready for power,” MacGregor announced.
“I’m starting the phased power increase,” the Doctor’s voice called from inside the Tardis.
Ann McGregor watched as the lights of the oval ‘ribs’ of the Time Tunnel turned on. As much as she had hated the Tunnel over the years, it was also like seeing an old friend come back to life. Now, maybe the Tunnel could bring Doug and Tony back to life too.
“Temporal oscillations are holding,” Carter yelled to the Doctor.
“I’m trying to establish a time fix on Cliffport, Maine, September 10, 1978.”
“No,” yelled the Doctor, as he heard on an explosion.
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