Disclaimer: I do not own SGA or any of the characters. If I did I'd be hanging out in the Puddle Jumper set.
Authors Note: Not as crazy as my last story but still not exactly serious.
Description: The Team need to find out if the wraith are on a planet or not, a quick there and back mission. Too bad things are never that simple, but at least they can always dial Atlantis for re-enforcements… can't they?
CHAPTER ONE: HOME OF THE WRAITHSheppard, McKay, Teyla and Ronon stood infront of the open Stargate in Atlantis, they were just about to go off world.
Sheppard turned to McKay.
"Remind me why we're going to a wraith home planet?" he complained.
McKay shot him a look.
"A possible wraith home planet," McKay informed him. "And you know full well that it's because we need to know if they are still occupying this planet or if they've abandoned it."
"Why's that?" Sheppard wanted to know.
"Colonel, we've already been through this. We have to know which planets the wraith occupy, so we can tell the Daedalus where they need to watch out for wrath ships."
"Okay, okay. Lets get it over with then," Sheppard replied, nodding to Weir to say that they were leaving and the four of them walked through the Stargate.
"Lots of forest," commented Sheppard. They were surrounded by trees.
"Mmmm," agreed McKay, looking at his scanner.
"Any wraith near by?" asked Ronon, the former runner obviously uncomfortable being on a possible wraith planet.
McKay grimaced.
"I don't know. It's the stupid jungles fault. I don't know what's animal and what's wraith."
"Teyla, do you sense any wraith?" Sheppard asked.
"Yes, I do, but none too close yet," Teyla answered.
"So the wraith still use this planet. Lets go then," suggested Ronon.
"What? We can't go yet!" McKay looked shocked.
"Why not?" Ronon questioned.
"Because we still don't know if they occupy this planet or if they're just visiting it. What if we told the Daedalus to avoid it and because they were avoiding it they met some wraith darts, and cruisers, near another planet we haven't checked out all because we just assume they weren't there and went home. We would probably be better off telling Caldwell that we didn't think there were any wraith on the planet but he might want to be cautious while flying near it anyway!" McKay made his point as clear as possible.
"So you want to tell the Daedalus that there aren't any wraith here because you assume that they are just visiting?" grumbled Ronon.
"No!" exclaimed McKay. "I'm not assuming anything! If I do that, there could well be wraith on this planet."
"That's why we're gonna find the wraith and see if they have a base here or not." Sheppard broke in.
"How do you plan to do that? Ask them? Are you just going to go up to them and ask 'Oh hi there, we were just wondering; do you have a base here?'?" McKay said sarcastically.
"Of course not. You're assuming the wraith Teyla can sense are just a small bunch. She could be sensing the very edge of s colony here," Sheppard pointed out. "And if it is just a small bunch of wraith, we'll follow them, and if the wraith do have a base here they might lead us to it."
"I think I have found only a small group of wraith," Teyla put in.
"Whoa, back up there," McKay grumbled. "We are gonna try and follow wraith? Do you know how hard that'll be?"
"McKay does have a point, it'll be pretty difficult, being that close to wraith" agreed Ronon.
Sheppard shrugged. "We only need to be close enough to follow them."
"If we get close enough to follow them, they'll know we're there," Ronon replied. "Particularly with McKay struggling along with all his equipment."
"Hmmm. Good point," mused Sheppard.
"I'm not that noisy," complained McKay.
"Do you think you think you and Teyla would be able to follow them without being noticed?" Sheppard wanted to know, ignoring McKay completely.
"I think we could," noted Ronon.
"If we stay far enough behind, I think we could do it," nodded Teyla.
"Good. McKay and I will stay in the cover of the trees to the left side of the gate. Keep your radios on at all times, although I won't contact you unless I have to in case the wraith hear it," instructed Sheppard.
Ronon nodded and he and Teyla left after the wraith.
McKay was grumbling to himself over his laptop.
"Something the matter?" asked Sheppard.
"Yes, you. You're interrupting me in my scans for wraith ships in the atmosphere, so shut up," answered McKay crossly.
"I'd leave you to your work, but we have to move out of sight," Sheppard informed him, pointing to the bushes to the left side of the gate where he'd told Ronon they'd be.
"Well, sorry," grumbled McKay sarcastically, and packed up his laptop.
They moved in to the bushes. Then McKay got out his laptop again and continued his scans on both the laptop and the Ancient scanner..
Teyla and Ronon creepy along in the jungle. Teyla held up her hand for Ronon to stop.
"There is a small party of wraith just infront of us," she whispered. "I am also sensing many more not to far away. I am guessing that that id their base on this planet."
"So this is one of their planets," grunted Ronon in a low voice.
"I believe so. I think we should take a look, just to make sure," Teyla suggested.
"Okay, so we avoid the little party infront of us?" checked Ronon.
"Yes," confirmed Teyla. "But we do need to radio Colonel Sheppard and Doctor McKay because the small group of wraith is headed to the Stargate.
Ronon thought that over for a moment as Teyla checked on the wraiths movement.
"How close are we to the possible wraith base?" Ronon wanted to know.
"Not very far at all," answered Teyla, wondering why he'd asked.
"Close enough to notice our radio signals?" Ronon wanted to know.
Teyla frowned, she had not thought of that.
"Definitely. If we were to use our radios now all the wraith in the area would know about it."
"We'll just have to hope they don't find Sheppard and McKay, then," observed Ronon.
"Quiet," shhhhed Teyla. "The wraith are headed our way. We need to go around them and see if they have a base here."
She and Ronon continued around the wraith towards the possible wraith base. They were taking absolute and total care not to make a single sound. Soon enough they came to the edge of the jungle and found themselves on top of a hill overlooking what was unmistakably a wraith ground base.
There were wraith everywhere.
"I think we can safely say wraith occupy this planet," commented Ronon.
"I would say so," agreed Teyla. "We need to get back to Colonel Sheppard and Doctor McKay."
"Well, lets get moving," suggested Ronon, happy to be leaving the wraith planet so quickly.
"I think we should try to reach the gate before that wraith party, if Colonel Sheppard and Doctor McKay are not expecting an attack because we have not radioed them they may get caught."
"We won't get there before the wraith," pointed out Ronon. "They'll probably already be at the gate."
Teyla figured that that probably hadn't been something that had needed saying, although it was right.