Disclaimer: I don't own ANYTHING about this except for Katerina and the events surrounding her life
Author note: I don't think this story is that good, but if you do like it, please review! I'll post a couple chapters, but I want to have people reading it before I put too much up
She pulled the cobwebs aside, and took the first step into the dank cave. Having been the last member of her race, she had learned to defend herself quite well, but the confinement of the dank cave made her uneasy.
She pulled down the branches that had been covering the cave, and curled into a corner of the cave, shivering in the bone-deep cold that came with sun down.
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Rodney was excited. Rodney was so excited that he burst into Weir, Sheppard and Teyla talking in Weir's office.
"Rodney what's wrong?" Asked Weir, standing up from her chair
"I know that look. Nothing is wrong. He just found some sort of sciency thing in one of the labs." Said Sheppard, getting a raised eyebrow from Teyla.
"Yes I did! When the Ancients had control of Atlantis, long before the wraith happened, and they were just starting on their genetic experiments, they came up with a way of creating a sort of hybrid of predator and human intelligence and-"
"What? Pause for a second. Where did you find anything like that? I thought you said there was nothing else in the main computers about allies, that you'd gone through it all already?"
Rodney deflated a bit at Elizabeth Weir's words.
"Weelll… I was going through the computers in the lab, the one with the planet simulator things? Well they weren't simulators, they were actually hooked up to the planets but-"
Weir rubbed her temples. "Spit it out, Rodney"
"Right right." Rodney regained his old enthusiasm. "I found evidence of a planet that was home to a group of people who raised large cats like guard dogs."
"You mean like lions and tigers?" Asked Sheppard, putting down the sculpture he was fiddling with on Weir's desk.
"Exactly, but the size of semis"
"How are they doing?" Teyla wanted to know, sounding interested.
"Well that's the problem. Their satellites were knocked out of orbit a long time ago. All I have is the last transmission, and they seemed perfectly happy then."
Weir nodded. "If the MALP shows it's clear, you can go." She said to Sheppard, who nodded and went to prepare his team.
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When Sheppard found Ronon, he was helping two other men install a furnace. The generators that powered the climate controls of Atlantis had had to be relocated, so a couple Earth generators had been brought in.
"Giant cats ya' say?" He grunted, when Sheppard told him of their mission.
"As big as semis apparently." Ronon glanced over his shoulder.
"What're semis? Anyway, I think I've been there before. Yeah, I have." The last few bolts were put in place, and Ronon let go of the furnace. "They're good people. I left within three months, before the Wraith could find me. Their cats could handle any wraith foot army, but darts were another thing entirely. When are we leaving?"