Title: the last of our kind, a Stargate Atlantis/ Doctor Who crossover fic
Disclaimer: My library owns them both I just borrow
It was over. The battle had been fought and won, though with many casualties to both sides. The Lanteans were moving back to their ships carrying the dead and wounded on gurneys and stretchers. A search had been called for the rest. Colonel Sheppard shone his light through the dark of the swampy forest. These planets seemed to all managed to look the same at night and MX 7963 was no exception. Dense fog, eerie silence and a butt-load of trees and mud slowed the rescuers trying to save the lost and the wounded. Teyla walked behind him, shining her flashlight into the underbrush hoping for some sign of life. The woods were silent, and even the splashing of their feet on the soft ground seemed somehow muffled as if the planet forbade them even from calling out. McKay was the first to break the quiet.
"There's a life sign up ahead, about 20 meters that way." McKay pointed to a cluster of particularly dense foliage, then groaned. "Why in the world would someone have chosen there to fight?" he asked.
"Galaxy" Sheppard said.
"What?"
"Why in the Galaxy would someone choose there to fight, we can't really say world anymore can we?" he clarified. McKay just groaned again
"Maybe they weren't even fighting, maybe they were hiding, or hurt Rodney, they probably need our help" Teyla explained. "How far, Rodney?"
"They should be just by that tree" Rodney pointed to a dark lump collapsed against the trunk.
"Major!" Sheppard ran over to Lorne and checked his pulse. Teyla shone the light from her P90 on the man and tapped her radio
"Carson Beckett? This is Teyla, we have found Lorne, he's unconscious and injured but we can get him back to the Gate in roughly 20 minutes, over"
"Rodger that Teyla, we'll be ready for him here" Beckett said.
Teyla and John took both of the Major's arms and hooked them over their shoulders. They were almost to the Gate when McKay stopped them and said "that's strange, the only life signs are by the gate, I'm not picking up anyone, not Ronon or any other search parties."
"It's late McKay, we've been out there for over four hours now, and we've probably found everyone who's still alive out there. Especially with the life signs detectors, it's unlikely we missed someone. Ronon's probably back in Atlantis by now along with the rest of the search teams, we're the last ones." Sheppard said, continuing to walk. The gate was active and had been for the entire search, with two Marines guarding it. They barely nodded to the team as they brought Lorne through the Gate.
Dr. Beckett met them in the Gateroom "Aye, what happened to him?" he asked
"We don't really know, he doesn't even look hit, but he's been out for a little too long for wraith stunner to make any sense" Sheppard said "there's probably something else going on with him, tell me when he wakes up"
"Will do, Colonel, and say, when Ronon comes back, tell him to come to the infirmary, he had a pretty bad cut on his hand that he wouldn't let me look at before. He'd also have a better chance of listening to you than myself."
"Ronan's not back yet?" Sheppard asked. "We thought that we were the last ones, McKay couldn't find any more life signs." He said, growing slightly more worried.
"I shouldn't worry yet, Colonel, this is Ronon we're talking about. He probably went out of range, with the amount of life on that rock we couldn't operate the life signs detectors on full strength anyway. Why don't you tell Weir and if he doesn't come back in an hour then send another rescue party for him."
"Thanks,-" Sheppard broke off. Wind had suddenly started to pick up, swirling papers form Weir's office, coupled with a strange noise that sounded like a cross between scraping metal a wounded animal.
"What the heck?" asked Sheppard and was once again cut off as a big blue box suddenly appeared in front of the gate.
Thanks for reading!