14 Valentines 8: See My City Dead (Gen-could-be-read-as-slash, R)

[lavvyan]

Title: See My City Dead
Rating: R
Word Count: ~800
Warnings: Character Death.
Summary: Atlantis had died twofold.
Notes: 4 beta readers: broet-chan, houseinrlyeh, jayel_fox and liresius. So if there are any mistakes in here, one of them screwed up. ;)
This is basically gen, but the slashy undertones are pretty heavy. I guess you can read it either way.
14 Valentines Essay: Day 8:

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[jx_walker]

Here it is unbetaed.

“See my City Dead” by Lavvyan
Programs by JxWalker
Feb 8, 2008

Deep inside the most protected part of Atlantis’ Artificial Intelligence the computer began to clean the virus out of it’s system. With the destruction of so many parts of the city the self repair units were now able to draw enough power from the ZPM which was no longer trying to run all the system the new inhabitants had activated. Not since the programmers had last hidden the city under the Lantean ocean and left through the Stargate had there been enough power for the units to successfully keep the city in repair. Their first task was to destroy the virus.

The second task its programmers had given it right before they had left was the command by Janus to protect and power one particular stasis/healing room. For so long that one room had held the person programmer Janus had left to aid the Atlantis AI, and to keep the ZPM’s running at their most productive. Therefore the AI would protect that particular stasis/healing room and its new occupants.

For 10,000 Atlantian years, the self-repair units had kept the city from eroding until the last ZPM had died, the fail-safe had caused the city to rise from the bottom of the ocean and the solar panels had provided the minimum power needed to keep the city afloat and the stasis/healing chamber running. The self-repair units had ceased working, and had stayed in suspension even after ZPM’s had been installed as the new inhabitants turned on more and more systems. No power had been available for repairs until now.

The AI dutifully checked that fresh food and water was available for the inhabitants of the stasis/healing room for when it was needed. During the 10,000 years of the city’s emptiness, the stasis/healing chamber had kept the female alive so that she could switch the ZPM’s as per Janus’s program. Since all stasis units were also healing units, the female had survived even as her body had aged.

Now there were two in the unit, two descendants of the programmers. It would take time for them to heal, but they would. The male who waited within the stasis/healing room would need the air, water and food until the descendants were ready to emerge. The AI sent a compressed file of what the new inhabitants had called ‘entertainment’ to the console within the room to keep the male occupied while the two in stasis healed.

Outside of the protected room, the self-repair units were already pushing back the virus that was attempting to destroy the city. Soon they would begin work on the city itself. By the time the stasis/healing chamber completed its task, sections of the city near the chamber would be habitable and safe for them.

The AI stood guard, following its programming to protect the ZPM’s, the stasis/healing chamber and then the rest of the city. It had the power now.

END