I don't own any of these characters, but I am having fun making them jump through my hoops.

You said I'm where now?

"So Miley, you're really going to Military Space Camp?" Lilly asked not believing her ears.

"Yes, Lilly, for the fifth time, my dad is making me go," I sighed.

"Did you try the puppy dog eyes on him?"

"Yes, of course I did, but he thinks it would be educational and maybe even fun," I said with air quotes around "educational" and "fun". "It's supposed to be all military like and look all real; I'll have to wear camo or those drab black suit things," I said in despair.

"Some camo is cute though; it won't be all bad," Lilly said with her arm around me trying to comfort me.

"No, Lilly, not the cute camo; the real stuff. It'll be just like military school, with fake guns and officers yelling at me! We have these little cards that say what our rank is. I'm Dr. Stewart so I'm like a scientist. My dad also thinks this will be a good acting experience because everyone will be really into their parts."

"Miley it doesn't sound that bad." Under her breath I think I heard her say, "Glad it's not me." I glared at her. She just smiled. "Are you going to have run a lot?"

"I think so." This was not going to be fun. At all. "I can't believe I'm doing this for two whole weeks out of my summer. I mean, summer is supposed to be fun and I guess if I am going to do a military movie it would be okay, but I don't think I have one coming up."

"I'll miss you. When do you leave?"

"Tomorrow, the torture starts tomorrow!"

The next day my dad and brother came to see me off. They gave me my uniform and told me to go change. The camp was in a different state but I never actually paid attention to the specifics. I signed in and then was ushered onto the bus with the few bags I was allowed to bring. The one personal item was a really fancy pocket watch that Lilly, Oliver, Jackson, and my dad had pitched in for. When you opened it, there was a picture of all of them. I don't really have a need for it, but the point of the camp is to feel like you are really in the military. I sat down in the last empty seat next to a girl who looked like she was in her late twenties.

"Hi, I'm Dr. Miley Stewart," I said already getting into character.

"Senior Airman Madison Smith. Are you excited?"

"Kind of, I think it will be a good experience and all."

"A good experience, are you crazy? This is going to be awesome. Plus I heard that Lt. Colonel John Sheppard was really cute." Cute guys, this just got a lot better.

"I guess, but I forgot, which state are we going to?" She gave me a weird look.

"Don't you know anything? You sure are weird, Doctor. We're going to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado." She was really good at playing her part. She had a military rank so when we were "on duty" I would have to call her ma'am.

"I have a bad memory. Sorry, Ma'am," I laughed. She did also. We didn't talk much for about half an hour.

"Yeah, we're almost to the airport." When the bus came to a stop I looked out the window. We got off the bus in a single file line. We also walked in step which would have been harder if I wasn't a good dancer. Madison and I were paired together. When we actually got on the plane, I was freaking out.

"Calm down, Miley. This'll be fun." I was freaking out too much to talk. I hated leaving the state unless I was with family or going to a concert. "Why were you selected for this special mission?" She asked me. I remembered on my card that told me about my part and it said I was like really smart or something.

"I'm a Junior Scientist." I think that was what it was called.

"Cool, I am a weapons expert. And soon I'll actually be a 2nd Lieutenant, because I graduated top of my class and there was a spot open and they said if I got this Secret assignment that I would get the promotion." She seemed really excited. I didn't know why, since it was just camp.

A couple hours later we arrived; I didn't know what to do so I just followed Maddy. We got our Temporary Room Assignments. I was with her and one other girl names Sara Matthews, who was an Airman. Tomorrow we were going to the special briefing and then going to our "permanent" assignment.

The phone started ringing and Jackson was the first one to it.

"Hello, this is Zack Jones, manager from the Military Space Camp. Is Robbie Stewart home?"

"Yeah." He yelled for his father. Jackson held it close to his chest before he handed it over him, he said, "I think Miley is in big trouble, it's the head guy from that camp she went to."

Robbie took the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi, this is Zack Jones from the Military Space Camp. Miley was on the roster for people that were attending this session but she never showed up."

"No, she did. I saw her sign in and get her uniform." Robbie insisted.

"Uniform? You wear whatever you bring, we don't have uniforms. And we have double checked. She didn't show up." Then the line went dead.

Where did I send her then? Robbie thought.

"So, what did she do?" Jackson inquired.

"She never showed up." A look of confusion crossed Jackson's face.

"No, we dropped her off and everything. She got on the bus and drove away."

"No, she didn't."

The briefing was actually interesting and well thought out for a two week camp. Atlantis was in a different galaxy, with aliens that could suck the life out of you. It sounded like something you would see on Sci-Fi. I was under the command of Colonel Sheppard and he was as cute as Maddy had said. Maddy and Sara had been placed together in a group, but I was all by myself.

"Hi, you're Dr. Miley Stewart, right?" Colonel Sheppard asked me when he approached.

"Yes, Sir," I said as I stood at attention.

"At ease soldier. Call me Colonel. You excited, Stewart? Atlantis is a very interesting place."

"I am excited, Colonel. May I ask a question?"

"Even though you already did, sure."

"Why am I the only one in this group? Every other group has more than one person but I'm the only one with you."

"Yeah, because somehow we had one more person than we thought we had and since you were the last one accepted, they placed you with me. And you are the only Junior Scientist they brought. I work with the lead Scientist of the Atlantis Expedition, they thought he would be a good person for you to learn from." That worked for me.

"Okay, Colonel." That concluded the day and I was tired. We had to do some running but not much; everyone was buzzing about the next day when we would go to Atlantis. Who would believe any of this? I mean the Pegasus Galaxy, Wraith, Stargates, The Lost City of Atlantis? What was up with that? It all seemed a little farfetched. The girls that I spoke to, mainly Sara and Maddy, were very jealous about my one-on-one with Colonel Sheppard. They told me that the scientist that I was going to be working with, Dr. Rodney McKay, was annoying and arrogant.

"Why are you with Colonel Sheppard? No one was supposed to be with him, because of his high rank," asked Sara.

"It was just a mishap, because I was the last one to join, apparently they didn't count me when they told them how many were coming," I replied.

"Wow, you are lucky because he is one of the best fighters, besides his team mates Ronon Dex and Teyla Emmagan."

They are really taking this seriously. My roommates wanted to be rested, but they didn't want to stop talking with me about Colonel Sheppard. They wanted to ask me every detail about what he is like.

"He hardly said anything because when he talked to me it was almost curfew." That ended the conversation.

In the morning they led us to a big room with a weird looking, giant ring in the middle of it. It had strange markings on it. It looked like what they had described the Stargate to look like, so that was what it probably was. This camp must have a lot of money. I was supposed to find Colonel Sheppard and follow him around, but I couldn't find him. I finally spotted him in the upper part of the room surrounded by people in uniforms of high rank. He motioned for me to come up. It was strange looking down at all the people and the Stargate looked even bigger when I was level with the top of it.

"You ready to go, Stewart?"

"As ready as I'll ever be, Colonel."

"You can call me Sheppard or John now that you are on my team. It's been decided. And it's the best team to be on, if you ask me," he joked. A woman with short slightly curly brown hair hit him lightly in the arm.

"Okay, Sheppard," I said. I decided to call him Sheppard because "John" seemed too personal to call someone in the military, at least in my opinion.

"Stewart, this is Dr. Elizabeth Weir. She's the leader of the whole Atlantis Expedition. When we get to Atlantis you'll meet the rest of the team. Dr. Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, and Ronon Dex. Let's get the puddle jumpers ready." he said into his earpiece.

I wondered what a puddle jumper was. Sheppard told me to follow him. They came to a room full of cylinder shaped ship type things. Sheppard walked into one of them. I followed. I was starting to think that I was at the wrong place. I think I was actually going to leave the Earth. Did my dad drop me off at the real military?

"The jumpers are a sight aren't they?"

"Sure are." That was all I could say. He told me to sit in the seat behind him. More people were coming into the room and getting into other jumpers.

"Weir is coming with us and we are the last to go through because we need to make sure everyone else gets through fine." Sheppard adjusted a few toggles and switches while we waited.

I was freaking out. I was worried about going half way across the country, but a different galaxy? That was in a whole new category. Wait, Life Sucking Aliens! I was going to a place with aliens that could kill me easily. We had also learned about Wraith Worshipers. They were humans that were like volunteer slaves for the Wraith and in return the wraith wouldn't kill them. Those people, I think, just knew that if you can't beat them, join them.

"You know, Sheppard, I'm a scientist. I have only very basic military training. As in I know how to shoot a gun in the right direction at the enemy," I said as I watched the jumpers in front of me lift off and disappear above me.

"Don't worry; with my team you'll be protected. And you know how to shoot a gun as well as Rodney and he's still alive," he said with a reassuring smile. Then we started to lift off the ground. I couldn't feel a thing but I still felt sick. What was my family doing? What did they do when they found out that I hadn't gone to the right place?

Back in Malibu the police were looking into the disappearance of Miley Stewart. The place the Stewart family had dropped her off was a real military base. Those in charge said that the teams had headed out to a secret base. They refused to tell the family or the police where it was and told them she could not contact them from there.

Before the military could send out a message that Miley Stewart wasn't supposed to be on the team, it was too late. Miley had already been sent to an even more secret location.

A/n…Thank you Breanna for helping me write this and making my explosions bigger and better. Thanks to my beta, katmom, for her support (she kinda had to because she's my mom).

This story is completed and I'll update again tomorrow.

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