Rebirth
Chapter One- Arrival
Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate. If I did it never would have been canceled and there would be more appearances of awesome Wraith (like Todd). I do however claim dibs on Ophelia, Evan, and Rosary.
This is just a story that popped in my head. I had been day dreaming of Stargate and Wraith for a long time and finally decided to write it out. This is the first fanfic that I've ever put on paper. I'm open to any ideas that you guys might have and I want lots of critique! Mostly on whether the Stargate characters seem like themselves. I also want to know if the plot is any good. Personally, I think that the story only gets good at the end of chapter two. And I especially think chapter three will be good.
Summary: When a science project malfunctions, three girls are transported to the Pegasus galaxy and have many encounters with the Wraith.
Evan Heartly sighed in irritation at the science project that her teacher had assigned her. She was supposed to be building some sort of machine but pretty much all she was doing was attaching wires and plugs to bits of metal and putting plastic coverings over them. Getting up from her assignment for just a moment, she plugged it in to see if it did anything interesting. It began pulsating slowly. It was slightly spherical in shape and now a ring of metal around it was moving.
"Well, it looks interesting." Her friend Rosary Morgan noted.
"That's not going to be enough for Ms. Farris!" Evan groaned throwing herself onto her bed. "It needs to be useful!" Pulling off her coat, she shoved her notes in the pocket, and put her coat in her back pack.
"Maybe you should just take a break from it for a while then." Rosary said, taking a bite of popcorn and turning her attention to the TV. "Get back to it later. For now, watch this with me."
"Look Alike?" Evan scoffed, fidgeting with her bleached silver hair as she shook her head. "You know I don't like that kind of stuff."
"Yeah, but it's better than…" She was interrupted by Evan's sister, Ophelia, opening the door.
"Hey," Ophelia said, trying to sound casual. But Evan didn't trust her. The only time her sister came to talk to her when her friend was over was when she tried to humiliate her. "So, what are you up to?" She tried walking over to the bed but stumbled over the machine Evan had been building.
"Hey! Careful!" Evan growled. "That's my science project." Evan picked up her bag and slung it over one shoulder. She would bring it downstairs soon.
"This piece of junk?" Ophelia picked it up and rotated it in her hands. "What does it do?"
"So far it just spins around."
"That's lame. What's it supposed to do?"
"I don't know!"
Ophelia just said, "Hmm," and dropped it on the ground and began to fidget with her black and violet hair.
"I said be careful!" howled Evan and she rose up to her feet to stand in front of her fraternal twin. "I've been trying to…" She froze as the device began to hiss and spark.
Everyone backed away from the device and it suddenly shot out a shower of white sparks and the electricity in the room went out. Both the TV and the over head light had gone out, plunging them into darkness.
"Oh great!" Ophelia muttered.
Evan went to the window. Even the street lights were starting to go out.
Just then Rosary screamed. Evan turned around and saw that the device was spewing more sparks and the ring around it was spinning furiously. There was a low whining as the metal bits grinded past each other. Then several voices came in. One at a time: "Well even so, don't you think there's just a chance? The Stargate might need to…" argued a man's voice. Then a weird hissing voice snarled, "Where do you think we can possibly…" Then there was the sound of a dog barking and someone screaming. After that came a strange metallic clang.
The ring on the device suddenly ground to an abrupt halt. Then a blue glow accompanied with smoke suddenly shot out from the center of the orb and then there was darkness.
"Off-world activation." Chuck announced. The gate exploded with the usual bubbling illusion as the wormhole was created. It then stilled back into the rippling water-like surface that meant a stable wormhole had been created.
"It should be Major Lorne's team back from their mission." Dr. Elizabeth Weir stated, walking closer to the glass between her and the gate room. "They're a little ahead of schedule."
"I'm not receiving an IDC." Chuck reported, confused.
"Raise the shie-." Elizabeth started to say. But just then, a young girl flew through the gate and landed on the floor.
Rosary opened her eyes, her vision bleary. She had just fallen. But where? She looked around and saw people in military uniforms pointing heavy guns at her. Running through all the possible places she could be, she began to panic. Where had she been? Evan's house. Right. But how did she get here? All she remembered was Evan's science experiment acting up….
A woman and a man were walking towards her. "I'm Dr. Elizabeth Weir." The woman said in a curt voice. "Now can you tell me just who you are?"
"I'm… my name is… Rosary Morgan." Rosary stammered feeling dread creep up her stomach as she felt many suspicious gazes on her. "Where… where am I? I was just at my friend's house. We were watching TV…. Her science project acted up. There was light and smoke and voices!"
"Slow down." The woman, Weir, said more gently. She knelt down beside Rosary and helped her into a sitting position. "Just what planet do you come from?"
Rosary gave her a look like she was a total idiot. "Earth, where else?"
Weir looked over her shoulder at the man standing behind her. He returned her scrutiny for a moment before looking back at Rosary.
"Are you sure?" The man said slowly.
"Well duh I'm sure. Do you expect me to be from Mars?" She looked around and saw the gate for the first time. "What is this place? How the hell did I get here?"
"I'd like to ask you that." Weir stood up and pressed something on her ear. It almost looked like one of those communication things that pilots used. "Medical team to the gate room."
Three hours and several tests later Rosary found herself in an infirmary with Dr. Weir, a Dr. Beckett, a Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, and a Dr. Rodney McKay.
"I know you don't think it's possible for her to get here," Dr. Beckett was saying. "But there's nothing abnormal about this girl. No sign that her mind's been tampered with or anything. Don't you think it's possible that she could have wound up here on accident? She seems like a normal little girl."
"But there's no way she could have gotten near the Stargate without clearance!" Dr. McKay was almost shouting.
"Rodney, I know that," Dr. Weir sighed. "But you know that there could have been some sort of accident. We have no idea what could have happened."
"Well then let's ask her what happened." Colonel Sheppard said with a smile. He strolled over to the hospital bed Rosary had been given. "Hey, just how did you get here?"
The other's came over in interest and Rosary squirmed slightly under all the eyes. "Well, I was just at my friend's house. We were watching Look Alike. Or rather, I was. Evan, that's my friend, she was working on a science project. She had to make some sort of useful machine. Then her sister came in and dropped it and the power went out and it started spitting out sparks. Then it started spinning and there were voices! Then it stopped and there was a blue light and smoke and I wound up here!" Her voice sounded calm at first but then it began rising in exasperation as she recalled the startling events.
"So you don't really know how you wound up here. Only that some toy went out of wack." An irate sounding Dr. McKay said.
Rosary shook her head indignantly.
"Great, so what do we do now?" McKay shouted, earning a glare from Rosary.
"Well," Weir said, taking in a shaky breath. "We can't send her back to Earth with what she knows. We'll just have to let the SGC know and keep her here for a while."
Rosary stared helplessly at them all. She wanted to tell them that they were insane! Perfectly, absolutely, insane… They seemed to think they were on another planet.
"Fine." Rodney said curtly before leaving in a huff.
"Forget Rodney." Sheppard said with a smile. "He's just a crabby old scientist who hates not knowing things."
Evan coughed as she fell on the ground. Somehow she still had her backpack in her hand. There was a bright blue light behind her, and she turned around to see it but it shut off. She caught a glimpse of a large metal ring and then all went dark.
She looked for Rosary and Ophelia, but all she could see was darkness.
"Ophelia?" She shrieked into the night. "Rosary? Where are you? Ophelia!"
They were gone. And so was her room. Panic crept up her body and she began to shake.
Okay, she told herself in a shaky voice. It doesn't mean anything. It's just dark and cold. You'll find them soon. The realization that it really was cold hit her as she thought this. It wasn't winter cold, but she still felt uncomfortable by it. She opened her back pack to see if she had her coat in it. Sure enough, there it was, right on top. She slipped on the silvery-black trench coat and began to dig for her portable flashlight. Once she found it she turned it on to try and find out where she was. The tiny glow didn't do anything to help her see. The darkness was all around her and all there was was open space. There wasn't even a street light or moon to help her see by. Not even a star.
"Hello?" She tentatively called out. "Is anyone there?"Panic gripped her as she waited for a response. There was a rustling of leaves and then she felt a wind brush over her. So she was out side. That was a start.
After waiting for what seemed like an eternity she began to crawl. She didn't know where she was going or what she had to do but all she knew was that she couldn't stay here. Her hands ran along grass and sharp rocks that stabbed into her palms. She suddenly felt herself falling. No, rolling downward. She'd stumbled over a hill!
Once as she stopped rolling she growled to herself, "I really have to watch where I'm going." Brushing the dirt from the scrapes on her palms, she began to crawl again. After ages of this she reached what seemed like trees. She turned on her flashlight again and sure enough there were trees. Her mind began to entertain the idea of staying out here, away from whatever little monsters might be lurking in there. But then she firmly told herself that she was just scaring herself with such nonsense. There were, of course, no monsters anywhere. They simply didn't exist! She took a few tentative steps forward and began walking. Her finger never moved from the button of the flashlight and she kept shining it in every direction as she went deeper into the forest. It wasn't long before she began to imagine shapes coming out at her from the trees. Her walk turned into a full speed run and she felt like a spooked horse running recklessly from nothing.
After a while, her head began to ache as did her legs and her lungs. Her body told her she had to stop but she didn't want to, for fear that she might actually come across something. She kept running. Her breath became a wheeze as she tried to go faster. Suddenly she slammed into something full force. She crumpled to the ground and moaned before shining her flashlight up at what looked to be a man with long messy silver hair and green skin. He had cat like golden eyes and no eyebrows. He also had two pore-like holes under each of his eyes. Eyeing him cautiously, she stood up.
"Hello," She squeaked.
The man just smiled revealing sharp teeth and unhealthy looking gums. His insane appearance terrified Evan. Her eyes also noted that his veins were visible through his green skin and that his eyes were gold. Gold like a cat's with slits for pupils. He also had some sort of holes on his cheeks.
"Do you… do you know where this is? Can you help me find my way back to my house? I was just there a bit ago… But…" She didn't know what else to say.
The man laughed. There was something odd and slightly robotic about his voice too. Evan regretted even talking to him. She should have just run when she'd had the chance… "Me? Help you? A human? You must be joking."
"What?" Evan said confused. This guy was definitely loony. "Um, I'm sorry I bugged you but… Well, I have no clue where I am." Her feet began to move of their own will and brought her a few feet away from him.
"Where do you think you're going?" He said with a sneer.
"Um," Evan began to feel dread grip her stomach as she pictured him pulling a gun out at her. Him raping her. Killing her. She backed up. "I'm just going to go home. Look, I don't know what you are, or what you're problem is, but you need to get serious help."
It might be possible for me to out run this psycho and find someone to help me, she thought. Was she any where near her house? Was there a forest near her house? She couldn't remember.
"No, you can't go home." The green psycho said. "Where ever you live it must not be on this planet since it's uninhabited, save the Wraith. I'm just going to feed on you and then go." He held out his right hand and took a step towards her. His hand had, what appeared to be a large cut in it. It almost looked like a hole going through his hand.
"You're going to eat me?" She squeaked stumbling backwards and falling on her butt.
"Yes, in a way of speaking. I'm going to take your life force."
"Why?" Evan began to reach in her bag for the pocket knife she always carried. "Can't you just find a nice turkey and chow down on something more normal. Something that doesn't talk?" Now she was just buying time.
The man laughed. "I'm a Wraith. I feed off humans. It's simple."
"Doesn't 'wraith' mean 'ghost'?" Even felt the handle of her knife through a hole in her bag. "You don't look like a ghost to me."
"Do you not know what Wraith are?" The creature asked in a bored tone.
"No, I don't." Even had the knife ready.
"Well, all you need to know is, 'I am your death'."
"That sounds a little dramatic." Evan said, feeling more confidant with the knife in her hand. "So, besides eating people what else do you do?"
"We destroy the people of Atlantis." The Wraith began to look bored.
Terrified that he would kill her soon if she didn't keep him talking, Evan said, "Atlantis. I studied about it, but…"
"You did? Then what's it's weakness? Are you from Atlantis?" The Wraith took a few more steps towards Evan. She leaped to her feet and plunged the knife into the Wraith's stomach.
"Don't come any where near me!" She snarled and took off running. Her hope was that the psycho was on the ground now, squirming in pain. But when she looked back, he was right behind her, some sort of gun-like thing in his hand. A scream ripped from her as the first shot fired.
She managed to duck in time and hid behind a tree. "Leave me alone! I just want to go home! I promise I won't tell the cops about you!" This weakness and fear wasn't normal for her and it only succeeded in confusing her. A blue ball of some sort of energy shot past her, and she whimpered.
Then she got annoyed, since when was she concerned for her own life? Here she was screaming and crying like a complete idiot, when she was normally reckless and bold. She found a large branch to accompany her knife and jumped out of her hiding space. The Wraith was only feet from her which startled her into charging and swinging at it with the branch. It merely ducked and knocked her into a tree.
Her back screamed in pain as she hit the tree with a sickening thud. Then the Wraith shot her with the weird gun and she fell unconscious.
"So you think the other two girls that were with Rosary could be somewhere else in Pegasus?" Weir asked McKay, crossing her arms.
"Well, yeah," McKay said with a slight bit of sarcasm. "From what she described, she heard a Wraith's voice for one moment. Then she said she recognized Sheppard's voice. Then there was just screaming and a dog barking. It all makes sense. There's no dog or Wraith on this planet. That device must have drawn out so much power that the wormhole it somehow opened must have kept switching destinations. It obviously was no Stargate. Who knows how it works. All the girls were in the same room as that device. I don't see why only one of them would get sucked in."
"But Rodney," Weir said softly. "We don't know for sure if there are any Earth girls out there. For all we know, Rosary might have just been the one closest and that's why she got sucked in."
"Well, what if there really are two other girls missing?" Sheppard chimed in. "You're just going to hope that they are somehow safe at home? What if one of them is getting fed on by a Wraith right now?"
"Fine John I see your point." Weir almost grumbled. "I'll ask the SGC to look out for any missing person reports on the girls when the next scheduled dialing is. We don't want to waste power on the ZMP. But what do we do in the mean time? Rosary has no place staying here. The base could be attacked at any moment. She's just a civilian. And she can't go home with the knowledge she has of this base."
"We have kept civilians here before." Sheppard pointed out.
"But they were from other planets, not from Earth." Weir replied.
"Well, like you said, she can't go home while knowing about this base." John said.
"I know," Elizabeth said with a sigh. "It just feels so wrong to keep an innocent girl trapped here."
Rosary was about to turn the corner to ask Elizabeth where the lunchroom was when she heard them talking. She couldn't leave. Those words echoed in her head for a bit until she shook them clear. Of course she'd leave eventually! They couldn't keep her locked up forever! After all, they seemed to follow the same laws as the USA so she doubted that keeping her here forever was even legal. Turning, she walked off in search of the cafeteria.
"Hey! You!" Rosary shouted at a slim man with curly, crazy hair.
He stopped and gave her a startled look.
"Do you know where the cafeteria is?" She asked. "I've been looking for it all day. This place is huge."
"You are new here?" The man said with surprise.
"Yeah," Rosary said, feeling slightly awkward. "I'm Rosary Morgan."
"Radek Zelenka. I'm from the science department." He held out his hand for her to shake and she did. "What department are you being assigned to?" He asked curiously.
"None," Rosary shook her head.
"Really? But why? Are you from a different world? Well, of course you are… I mean… but which one?"
"Earth."
"Then if you're here, you must have a reason for being here in the first place."
"Well, I don't have a reason. I'm just stuck here. I'm probably not old enough to be here even. Since I'm not old enough to have ever gained enough trust from the US government to get security clearance." Rosary began to ramble, trying to get all her problems off her chest all at once.
"Wait, how old are you?" Zelenka asked in surprise.
Rosary figured he was surprised a lot. "I'm seventeen."
"Then what are you doing here? This is no place for a child!"
"That's what I keep hearing, but I can't go back home, even if I wanted to." She said remorsefully. Then she tried to change the subject. "Now where's the cafeteria?"
"Um, I'll show you. It's not far." Zelenka began walking awkwardly down the hall.
Rosary decided he was a little weird but likeable.
Once they reached the cafeteria, Zelenka said, "Well I hope you can find your way now, and good luck." Then he walked off awkwardly.
Rosary walked over to the food line and grabbed a tray. She looked for an empty table and saw none. Then she noticed Dr. McKay sitting by himself. "Well, it's better than sitting on the floor…" She muttered and walked over to the crabby scientist.
"Hello Dr. McKay." She said politely. "May I sit here?"
"Yes, of course." He said in a dismissive tone.
Rosary sat down and began eating, feeling slightly awkward. McKay was punching commands into some weird computer. His food sat untouched next to him.
"Ah! Dammit!" He hissed and began to scrutinize the screen more intently.
"What are you working on?" Rosary asked, mildly curious.
"I'm trying to figure out how to recalibrate a dart so that it can be controlled remotely."
"A… dart?" Rosary asked, a little more than confused.
"It's a small Wraith ship. They're about the size of an F302 or an F14."
"What's a Wraith?" Rosary asked. Everything here seemed confusing.
"You don't know?" Rodney looked up at her in surprise. "Well, of course you don't, you haven't been here long. Um, the Wraith are Vampire-like aliens that live only here in the Pegasus galaxy. They feed off of humans by placing their right hand over their heart and sucking the life out of them. They also control many large and advanced ships. Most of the time they live on those ships."Rodney rambled. They both sat there for a long while, Rosary asking questions and Rodney answering them, pleased that someone wanted to hear what he had to say. They both had already forgotten their food.
Somehow Rodney had gotten into a long explanation about "ZedPM's" and the theories he had about recreating them when Sheppard showed up.
"Hello there." He said pleasantly.
"Hi," Rosary said. Then she remembered him saying to Elizabeth earlier that she couldn't leave and she shifted in her chair uncomfortably.
"I'm glad you two are getting along." Sheppard continued casually. "Rodney here doesn't have any friends to talk to about his quantum physics or whatever. So he's usually busy going insane talking to himself."
"I do not talk to myself!" Rodney insisted. "I just have to do something to make me remember what ever I'm thinking."
"Right," Sheppard said as he grinned smugly at McKay. "You should really get some help sometime. You'll go insane some day. Pretty soon the walls will start talking back."
"Oh, haha, genius, I bet you're thinking you're a total riot."
"Yep, that's why I'm the military commander of the most technologically advanced, human occupied planet in the Pegasus galaxy and you're just a simple scientist."
"Hey, you know, as well as I do, that if this city is attacked by some mighty threat, that you'll only hold off the threat temporarily. I'll be the one to completely fix the problem."
"Really, I'll have to make a note of that. Next time I'm fighting for the city, you're not allowed to come with."
"What?"
Rosary found this exchange slightly amusing and had to resist the immature urge to hide under the table just to see if they ever noticed that she disappeared. Then she let her mind drift as she finished her food. Suddenly Evan and Ophelia jumped into her head. An image popped into her mind of Evan being attacked by one of the Wraith that McKay had told her about. She felt a throbbing pain beneath her ribcage and clutched at her heart. After a second the pain subsided and Rodney and Sheppard were staring at her intently. She faked a coughing fit, hoping it would seem like there was nothing wrong.
"Um, I'll see you later. I need to go get a cough drop." She faked a smile as Rodney and Sheppard watched her leave.
Rosary found herself back in her quarters. Little knives of pain kept stabbing at her chest and she checked it in a mirror. There were five tiny drops of blood on her chest and one big round smear of blood at the center of these dots. She panicked and looked down at her chest and back up at the mirror again and was relieved to see they had vanished, along with the throbbing pain under her ribs.
Evan gasped as she jerked upright. It was what she usually did to wake herself up. Her eyes stayed closed though since she was still tired. I don't remember if I have school today, she thought, If I do, my mom will come in and bother me. She closed her eyes and tried to go back to sleep. Then she heard heavy footsteps.
"Wake up!" Said a strange echoing voice.
"Huh?" Evan mumbled, sitting upright. There was hardly any light around her and there were purple walls. She turned towards one of the walls which had a bunch of holes in it. There was a man with green skin. She suddenly remembered last night when she tried to run from him in the forest. Then she realized this was a different man. They both seemed to like trench coats.
Slamming herself against the wall furthest from him, she screamed, "Stay away from me!" She reached behind her to try and fish her knife out of her back pack but realized that her bag was gone.
"Come with me." The Wraith said in a bored tone.
"I don't want to." Evan said coldly, trying to squash her fear.
"If you don't come, we'll kill you." He said with a pleasant smile. Although, there was nothing pleasant about it.
Evan slowly walked over to him and stayed still as the wall opened up. It must have been some sort of gate. The other walls out in the hall were purple too and there were several Wraith walking about.
Evan looked at this one as a wry thought came to her head; the first one must be aching after I stabbed him.
"This way," the Wraith almost hissed, and he started walking.
Evan followed him and two masked Wraith followed her closely.
"So," she said conversationally. "You guys are Wraith. Besides eating humans what do you do?"
"Many things," the lead Wraith said cryptically.
"Like…" Evan said, hoping he would continue.
"Do your people have one specific purpose?" He asked in a slightly annoyed voice.
"No," she said. "Back on Earth we all did different things. God, when am I going to go back home?" The words "back on Earth" echoed in her head. To her it felt like she wasn't on Earth anymore. But where was she really?
"On Earth?" The Wraith turned and stopped suddenly.
"Yeah, that's my planet." She figured she must still be on Earth, since there were no such things as aliens. As much as she wanted to believe in aliens, she didn't think that it was possible for her to actually be meeting any. Embarrassment swelled in her chest to have even let it slip from her lips. She was glad for the darkness because she was probably blushing.
The Wraith scrutinized her for a while before saying, "Interesting."
They continued to walk down the hall but with more speed. Evan wondered about Rosary and her sister. Ophelia would freak if she ended up here. Had they been brought here too or had they just stayed in her room? She figured she should ask.
"Um, excuse me." She said slightly timidly. "Wraith, uh, do you know where my friend and my sister are? They were with me before I came through the blue light." Embarrassment further colored her cheeks since she had simply called it a "blue light".
"You mean the Stargate." The Wraith said not bothering to slow down.
"Uh, if that's what it's called." Evan said beginning to feel more comfortable since he was actually talking. "So, when we came through the Stargate…. No, when I came through the Stargate, I was alone. Ophelia and Rosary had been there with me for one second and then my science project acted up and then they were gone. Do you know where they could have gone?"
"I have no clue where your friends are," the Wraith said. "But I can assure you that we'll keep looking for them. Now, what was this science project of yours?"
"It was kind of a failure. I had no clue as to what I was doing when I made it. But, I think that that's what got me here."
"Hmm, I'll tell this to my Superior." The Wraith stopped talking as soon as they reached a large room. The Wraith from last night stood at the head of this room
Evan's first reaction was to run at him and kick him. Then she remembered she had stabbed him and she should probably apologize. But he had shot her.
She hadn't even decided how to act when he spoke, "So, you are from Earth? And you created a device that activated the Stargate easily."
"How did you… he didn't even get a chance to speak to you." Evan said realizing that the information the Wraith from last night had just stated was information only the new Wraith had heard.
"We are connected by a telepathic network." He said simply. "You probably don't understand do you?"
"I don't know, but either way, you have to be lying." She said suspiciously.
The Wraith laughed and said, "Are all humans from Earth defiant? Every human on the Atlantis expedition are from Earth and they all act similar to the way you're acting now."
"It's called not being a coward." Evan said, still not sure how to treat him. "So, what are you?"
"We are what you'd refer to as 'aliens'. We feed on human's life forces to survive and we keep the humans in this galaxy in check."
"Wait, I know that I always thought there had to be aliens somewhere, but there's no way that I'm meeting any. That just doesn't happen! It only happens in Star Trek or whatever."
"I assure you that you really are meeting me." The Wraith said. Then he sat down in a large chair and gestured to a space on the floor. "Come, sit."
Evan walked forward slightly cautious but stayed standing. If these people were aliens, or if they were just psychos she'd still have to be careful. "I'm sorry for stabbing you yesterday." She said sheepishly.
"It healed."
"That quick?" Surprise colored her voice.
"Yes, Wraith are able to regenerate themselves much more quickly than humans."
"Wow, ok so. Yeah." Evan said at a loss for words. She just decided to change the subject. "So you know about my friends then?"
"Yes,"
"Then can you help me find them?" She didn't know if she should trust these people but she had to give it a shot.
"We might be able to. But for now, let's focus on that device."
At first I wasn't sure if I should stay secretive about Ophelia. I'm still a little cautious about mentioning too much about her. I'm going to tell her part of the story a little later on.
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TBC in Chapter Two: Reveal