I don't know about all of you, but I was completely unsatisfied that they canceled Stargate Universe just as it was getting good, so... I'm going to write what I think happened. :D

This takes place from the moment Stargate Universe: Gauntlet ended.

Stargate Universe: Continuation

Episode One: Abducted

Prologue: To Sleep

Previously on Stargate Universe

An emergency riles up Destiny's crew, the drones have blocked off access to every Stargate in the Galaxy. After trying their hardest and refilling the Destiny's power using a Blue Supergiant, Dr. Park is blinded and the Destiny crew is left with only one option… to enter stasis in the stasis pods for three years or more and use the ship to make an FTL jump to the next galaxy. With this as their only remaining option, they say their goodbyes and climb into their stasis pods. Only time would tell what their Destiny was… until now.

Present Day

Eli's smile suddenly became a frown and he turned away from the scene of FTL outside of the window. He quickly realized how stupid he had been being up until this point. He had two weeks to figure out how to fix the one pod left, or he would have to disable the life support... and let himself die.

He ran back to the control interface room, in complete darkness, and immediately booted up one of the shut-down terminals. He started thinking up solutions to the problem. But every time he thought he was on the verge of a solution, he would be wrong.

Deciding that this pursuit was fruitless, he took the short walk to the stasis chambers and walked along the rows as the empty eyes of his crewmates stared out at him. Eventually, he reached the end and started to check out the inside. He had decided that in order to fix it, he would have to identify exactly was the problem was in the first place.

He could find no problems on the external hardware inside the pod. It all seemed just fine. It looked like the ability for the pod to enter stasis was fine, but there was a problem that prevented it from starting.

Eli stepped out again and stepped up to the terminal. He began running power through each individual conduit and power cable in the pod. Just as he had thought, several of them were damaged. He could get access to the wires and run a few bypasses, but there were far too many damaged wires. He guessed that the weak wiring had blown out when they had tried to turn it on.

Grabbing a set of tools from a nearby room, he returned and started to peel off the walls inside the pod. But as he pulled off the first piece, he instantly knew that there was no hope of repairing it. The wires inside were shredded to bits and in some places burned beyond recognition. They needed to be replaced, but he had no idea what exactly he could replace them with.

Eli inspected them more closely and found that he knew the material with which most of these wires were made of. They had brought a bunch of raw materials and such when they had returned from Novus, and he knew plausible substitutes for a lot of them. Then he encountered a different type of wire that was constructed with completely different materials, and he didn't know what they were for.

He scrunched up his nose and stepped out of the pod to bring the one thousand seven hundred page manual up on the terminal. He tried to skim over it, but he knew that he would never be able to recognize what the wires were for doing that. He needed context, which he would not get by skimming. Having completed his initial inspection of the pod, he downloaded the manual onto his tablet and started to read as he walked over to the mess hall with the tablet as his only light.

He decided that he would need to write a program that would make the lights to follow him around so that he could see where he was going. With such a time-critical objective, he would need to quickly navigate around.

After he reached the mess hall, he sat at the table and popped open one of the containers and ate as he read. He guessed he still couldn't help the fact that he ate when he was bored. Eventually, he stopped eating as he read but still sat there staring intensely at the tablet.

Several hours passed as he sat there reading and he just began to get more infuriated with every page that the explanation for the unusual wires was not on. Eventually, he took a deep breath and stood up. Leaving the tablet behind, he walked to the bridge and entered the password before stepping inside. Deciding there was nothing to lose; he sat in the Captain's chair and sat back.

It was actually quite comfortable and gave him a nice place to think. In nearly nine hours, he had only gotten through one hundred and fifty pages of the complicated text that was the manual. At this rate, he knew that it could take nearly all of the time he had to find what he needed in there. He could only think of one thing that could help, or rather a person. He needed Ginn.

Eli keyed in a few things using the keyboard mounted onto the arm of the chair. The battle displays dropped down but instead of that, he could do whatever he wanted with Destiny's systems. With a little perusing, he found the Quarantine zone within Destiny's systems. The two files that represented Amanda Perry and Ginn were still there.

The problem was that once Quarantined, Destiny didn't allow the removal of files from that Quarantine. He imagined that there was some kind of method to it, but even more than year on-board the ship hadn't made anybody a master on the extremely complex systems. He had only one idea for how to get them out of there, and he knew it could kill him or get him stuck inside of Destiny's systems permanently.

He would need to sit in the chair and upload his consciousness to the ship and start removing protocols that constructed the Quarantine zone of the system. It would take him several months of constant work to do the same thing in the real world, but inside the system it was different, he would be able to instantly see the connections between files and protocols and know which ones to remove and which ones to leave.

Only Rush had ever uploaded his consciousness to the system, and he had almost been stuck there permanently. Eli wasn't all that familiar with the chair other than its basic functioning, but he trusted Rush's program for the most part. After all, the man had used it himself.

He knew he didn't have any time to waste either, as every second was precious.

Before he stepped out of the chair however, he quickly rigged the lights to follow him around and predict his course so that he could see ahead. It wasn't an extremely complicated program, but it still took him fifteen minutes to write and another fifteen to get Destiny to accept it.

After that, he hopped up and headed for the chair room without delay.

Before launching the process, he went over Rush's programs and made a few alterations to increase safety. He could get out of the system at any time by just thinking about it now. After that, he went over the power requirements for the chair to make sure that it didn't cut into the power needed for the jump. It wouldn't, but it would take a day out of his life support to get in and get out.

Finally concluding he was ready, he ran the necessary programs and sat in the chair. The arm locks slammed shut, the bolts swung into place, and they spun until they came in contact with his head. At first, there was an intense pain, and then there was nothing.

Suddenly, the world was black… nothing… Until it lit up and lines of code and running programs flashed all over the place.

"Wow…" He said to himself. He walked through it all, inspecting everything. It was here that he realized he had no idea how to navigate the system. Suddenly, the computer code and other things retreated and he was in one of Destiny's hallways. He could see the codes along the walls, and turned around.

He saw himself strapped into the neural interface chair unmoving.

"This is creepy… but awesome at the same time…" He whispered. He turned away. He started walking through the hallways. "But where is the server where the Quarantine is held?"

Just as soon as he asked himself that, everything before him seemed to fly by and he was suddenly in a completely different part of the ship. He was standing before a large computer with a terminal mounted against it. Nervously, he reached out and touched it.

As he did this, he suddenly was the computer. He could see all of the programs and they cooperated with his will. He started bringing up the protocols that prevented the removal of files from Quarantine and he started removing them with solutions he thought up almost instantly. It was like his brain was in overdrive, but he knew that it was just that fact that he was basically a computer now.

It took hours, but eventually the protocols were down, and he entered the Quarantine system himself.

Suddenly, he was standing in a forest. He looked around, and could see nothing other than trees and the path before him. He tried walking, but it was as if he made no progress.

"Ginn!" He called. But there was no answer. Panicking he started to run, but after several minutes he had still gotten nowhere. "What is going on…?"

"Eli? Is that you?" Came a feminine voice from behind him. He flipped around and found Ginn standing there.

"Yes!" He said. He ran up to her and tried to grab her but phased right through.

"Sorry, this simulation program apparently doesn't provide full reality contact…" Ginn said. "Not that there's much I can do about it…"

"That doesn't matter… Let's just get the hell out of here… okay?" Eli asked.

"I would like nothing more than to do that, to be with you Eli… but something happened to Amanda Perry's program when you transferred us here. A part of her became corrupted. She's fused our programs together so that you can't bring one of us out with the other, and she's become a crazy…" Ginn started to say. Suddenly, the sky above them started darkening. "Oh great… Come on, I created a small partition where she can't access."

Suddenly, he was in a small closet. A lamp was in the middle and Ginn was standing across from him.

"How are you doing that?" Eli asked.

"Still haven't quite figured out the whole being a computer thing?" She asked. Eli nodded. "Wait a second Eli, how did you get here? Are you…?"

"No, no, nothing like that." He answered. "I'm using the chair. I came here because I needed your help."

"With what?" She asked.

"The rest of the crew is in stasis, one of the pods is broken. I've got two weeks to fix it or I have to shut off the life support and die from asphyxiation. Fun stuff…" Eli said. "I need someone inside the computer who can read the entire manual in seconds and feed me relevant information."

"Why would you need to do that?" Ginn asked. "What's going on there?"

"It would take too long to explain…" Eli said. "When we get back, you can go over the ships logs yourself."

"But I told you Eli, I can't leave without bringing her with me. If we did that, she would sabotage the ship from the inside out…" Ginn said.

"Rush's girlfriend turning into an evil psychotic bitch?" Eli wondered. "Why does that not surprise me?"

Ginn shrugged.

"Anyways… I'm the only one who can get you two out of here. I removed all of the protocols that would prevent me from taking your files out of the system..." Eli said. "If we could somehow sever the programming link keeping you two fused, then I could just pull you out and leave her in here."

"How would you tell the difference between us?" Ginn asked.

"You said Perry's program got corrupted when it went in here, it should be easy to tell the difference between you two because her file will have a ton of junk data attached." Eli said.

"It's as good a plan as any, but you can't do that from in here. You have to go back to the real world." Ginn replied.

"I know… I'll see you in a bit." Eli said. He closed his eyes and thought about the real world, and then opened them. Nothing happened. "What the?"

"What is it?" Ginn asked.

"I just ran the abort to get out of here, it didn't work." He replied. "I made an exception so that my data can come and go from the Quarantine zone as much as I want, so it can't be that. Something has to be stopping me from leaving."

"Oh no, it's Perry." Ginn said. "I'll have to distract her so that you can escape."

"But if you two are close together in here, your files parts will be too hard to distinguish with that programming link between you two. If my calculations are wrong, I could delete you instead of the link." Eli said.

"Don't worry; your math is never wrong." She said. "Just don't miss the context. Now I'm going to disappear, wait five seconds and then go!"

Eli nodded and she disappeared. He counted to five and then thought about the real world. The next second, he woke up in the chair and got up. Knowing he didn't have much time, as Perry would now feel that Ginn was in conflict with her and would try to gain control of the system enough to delete her which was easier now thanks to Eli's reworked protocols, he ran as fast as he could to the bridge.

He tried to enter the password with his hand shaking. He messed up the first time and had to start over. This time, he managed it and the bridge doors opened up with a press of a button.

He ran onto the bridge and jumped into the Captain's chair. He quickly brought up the screens and accessed the quarantine zone. As Eli had predicted, they were so close within the system, he couldn't distinguish their code from one another. They appeared to be one complete file instead of two separate ones.

Quickly, he started analyzing the code for the errors that would indicate that the section was the program link. He found the dividing line between the two quickly, but still had problems finding the code that represented the programming link. He quickly ran some equations through his head that helped him locate the section of code that he was looking for.

Having found it, he started analyzing for points where it didn't match up with the rest of the code. This would be the two points at which it connected to the files that represented Ginn and Perry. If he was wrong, he could permanently delete something important about them however small.

Having located the two points, he took a deep breath, and deleted the code. It looked alright; the two files were now separate entities. He released his breath and sat back in relief. After that, he stretched his fingers out and analyzed the two files. He easily identified the junk data that represented corruption and identified Perry's file. The corrupted bits could be reconstructed as far as Eli knew, but that wasn't what worried him right now.

He transferred Ginn out of Quarantine and into Destiny's main systems.

"Ginn?" He called. There was no answer. "Ginn!"

"I'm right here Eli." She said as she was suddenly standing right next to him.

"Good, and that's how I want to keep it this time." Eli said. But something struck him as off about his own words, as if he didn't believe what he was saying himself. He put this doubt out of his mind. "After all that though, I need some sleep. So we'll talk later while you read the manual for the stasis pods."

"Already done." Ginn said.

"Alright then, do whatever you want while I get some sleep." Eli said. He started to step off the bridge. "Glad to have you back…"

As he stepped off the bridge, he couldn't help feeling that he was yet again lying to her.

The next morning, he showered with Ginn watching him.

"You know that's kind of creepy right?" Eli asked.

"I've already seen it." She said smirking.

"Well I don't mind." He replied.

"Nice save." She answered.

After he was done and dressed he stepped back into the Stasis Pod hallway and started to inspect the stasis pod. He started pointing to wires as Ginn "stood" next to him.

"Okay these wires I recognize…" Eli said picking one of them up and showing it to Ginn. "They seem to be power wires made out of hardened Palladium and a combination of other materials to make sure it lasts a very long time. The insulation can easily be replaced with whatever other kinds we have on board, but we have plenty of hardened Palladium that I could cut into wires as well as materials that could easily substitute for anything we don't have…"

"So you've gotten better with building stuff I see?" Ginn asked.

"I've been spending too much time with Brody obviously." Eli said. "Although honestly, any time with Brody is a bit too much if you ask me…"

He grinned.

"Anyways…" He continued picking up part of the wire he didn't recognize. "…this is what I'm really worried about. I have no idea what these are for or what their made of."

"They are for the transfer of consciousness to the storage device above the pod. The manual doesn't mention what material their made of though, but this appears to be because some of it has been corrupted." Ginn said.

"Oh that's just perfect." Eli replied. "So I know what they're for, but I have no idea what they're made of."

Eli spent the next week constructing the wires that he could make himself. After constructing them, he installed them in the pod over the damaged areas. When he was done, he stepped out and up the pod terminal.

"Finally done…" He said. "Now let's see if these fixes work…"

He powered on the pod and it seemed to maintain power for a few seconds. Been then the wires started sparking and he powered it off.

"Damn it!" He said slamming his fist into the terminal. "Why didn't that work?"

"I don't think it can." Ginn said. "I observed the power grid when you did that, it appears power cables on the ships surface took damage during the drone kamikaze attack. The electricity running into this pod is extremely unstable."

"Great, and because the ship is in FTL… I can't go onto the surface to fix them!" Eli said. "Hell, even if I could, I still don't have replacements for the consciousness transfer wires…"

"The pod appears to be completely irreparable…" Ginn said. "I'm sorry Eli…"

"It's not your fault." Eli said. "But I don't think I'll ever be able to store my body in this pod…"

"I know…" Ginn said.

"Wait a second." Eli said grinning as he stood up. "I don't need to store my body in this pod! I've been going about this all wrong!"

"What do you mean Eli?" Ginn asked. "Without a pod to store your body in, there's nowhere for you to go."

"Look, why don't I just jump in a pod with someone else?" Eli asked.

"Because the storage devices above the pods only support one at a time." Ginn said. "Your body could probably survive it, but your mind wouldn't have anywhere to go."

"Exactly, but that means all I need is another intact consciousness storage device." Eli said grinning. "We've already tested the one for this pod, it's completely intact!"

"I see where you're going with this Eli… but the problem is that there's no way to put your body into one and then send your consciousness into another. There's no wiring between them, and there's no way to get more wire to interconnect them." Ginn said.

"What is this… the middle ages? Who needs wires; wireless is the way to go." Eli said. "I can take the wireless receivers from the shuttle and rig them onto the consciousness devices. If they can transfer a large amount of telemetry data and such, it should be able to transfer a consciousness, albeit a bit slowly."

"That should work." Ginn said. "Turns out you are a genius."

"Math boy surpasses his own definition…" Eli said humorously.

"What?" Ginn asked.

"Um… nothing." Eli said. "Let's go grab those receivers."

It took two more days, but eventually, the wireless receivers were rigged up and ready to go… with one on the broken pod's, and one on Colonel Young's. Eli spent the third day writing the needed program that would grab one of the two consciousness's and split them between the two storage devices.

That night, he walked into the pod room and loaded up the program onto Colonel Young's pod. After that, he went to the terminal and started running the simulations for the power he would need to shut off and then turn back on a pod. Just as he had worried, it was going to cut into the power for the jump. He had taken too long.

"Damn it…" Eli said to himself sitting down against the walls.

"I'm sorry Eli…" Ginn said. "What are you going to do?"

"I'm not sure." Eli said. "Die I guess…"

"You could upload your consciousness to Destiny…" Ginn said. "You're going to die anyways; it wouldn't make much of a difference."

"Well isn't that pleasant… but your right." Eli said. He stood up and started heading for the chair room. He readied everything and stood looking at the chair and looking at himself for what would be the last time… then he had an idea. "I'm not going to die…"

"What is it Eli?" Ginn asked.

"I'm not going to die!" Eli said. A memory came back to him.

Rush and him were on the bridge and Eli was scanning through inactivated systems. He found one that had files on it and pulled open the files. It was named Kinetic Energy Absorption.

"Uh… Rush, I think I've got something here." Eli said.

"What is it? I've got other more important things to work on then your discoveries Eli…" Rush said as he tapped a few keys on the captain's chair.

"But this could be important. It looks like we have another way of recharging other than flying into a star; never know what that could come in handy." Eli replied.

"Fine, what is it?" Rush asked. Lifting his glasses off and looking at Eli.

"It's called Kinetic Energy Absorption. It works by taking the energy we get from being in FTL, and converting it into electricity." Eli said.

"Fine, we'll look into it later. Get back to work running those diagnostics…"

They had looked into it later. The system still worked. The problem was that the power it generated was insignificant. One burst from a four hour FTL jump was barely enough to power a flashlight for 24 hours.

But that wasn't the point. Eli knew that the amount that the pod was cutting into the power for the jump was insignificant, just as insignificant as the Kinetic Energy Absorption system. Also, for a three year FTL jump, it would get to at least one percent of their total power reserves before they dropped out, so it may give them just a bit longer in FTL if they needed it.

Either way, he started running for the bridge.

"Eli, what's going on?" Ginn asked after him.

"There's a system that can generate the small amount of power I need!" Eli yelled as he ran. "It's called Kinetic Energy Absorption!"

"Good thing you realized that." Ginn said. She was just floating alongside him as he ran.

Eventually, he reached the bridge and flipped on the system after some computer searching. After that, he ran back to the stasis pod room and powered down Young's pod without further ado.

"Eli…?" Young asked as he stepped out of the pod. "Has it been three years already?"

"No." Eli said.

"Then what did you get me out for?" Young asked.

"There's no time to explain, we need to get back in quick. I'm not sure how that will affect you, but we don't have time to wait." Eli said.

"We?" Young asked.

"No time to explain! Just get in!" Eli urged. Young stepped back into the pod. "Ginn! Do it!"

Eli jumped into the pod after Young, the door lowered, and everything went black.