Project File: Phoenix Rising -greywolfthewanderer

Major John Sheppard commands the lightning. He’s a Special Power Teams operator. It’s why he was sent to Atlantis – he’s a walking weapon of mass destruction. He’s been the military commander of Atlantis Forward Base since Col. Sumner was killed by the Wraith.

Dr. M. Rodney McKay is the foremost Tau’ri expert in Ancient technology and the Stargate system. He’s the Head of Science for the Atlantis Expedition, until he is lost to a catastrophic overload from a newly-discovered Ancient lab. Dr. Radek Zelenka gets promoted and the Expedition go on the best they can, while the accident is investigated.

Afterwards, Sheppard can’t get McKay out of his mind. The loss he feels is all out of proportion, as though he’s lost the other half of himself. Over and over he sees the city destroyed in his dreams, paroxysms of fire that took out the Gate first, so no-one could escape.

Then the malfunctions start to happen, building up thick and fast, until Atlantis herself pulls John to the city’s control chair, so she can show him what’s broken and what he needs to do.

It’s gonna be the hardest thing he’s ever done, but there’s no choice left now.