The worm hole had shut down after everyone stepped out of the gate, they had just arrived onto the planet M4S-098, there had seemed to be at one time a small town near the gate although it had been broken down and destroyed long ago. As the team stood checking for any signs of the wraith McKay was checking for signs of high energy readings.
"McKay, it looks like no one has been here in years, remind me why we're here again?" Sheppard asked.
"As I said back on Atlantis, it was told in the data base that there was a possible ZPM here." He replied annoyed, he hated repeating himself.
"Shush there's someone here" Ronon said his gun ready to shoot at any moment.
"I sense it too along with a wraith, he is not nearby yet but we should move." Teyla responded.
That was when a tall slender woman came around from behind a barely standing building. She wore leather pants sewn together that barely stayed up on her hips as she walked; her shirt was a dark tan color that barely covered her toned stomach, her skin was dark from all the sun she had been in throughout the years. In her hands she held energy pistols much like Ronon's along with a sword at her side, if you had looked closely you could even see an extremely large knife inside her boot.
"Where ever you came from you must leave now." Her voice was quiet and full of distrust.
"We mean you no harm" Teyla tried to explain as everyone slowly lowered they're weapons trying to show peace.
"All we want to do is take a look around, we're just explorers." Sheppard said as he took slow and steady steps closer to her. "My name is Sheppard, that's Teyla and there's Ronon and that's McKay."
"I don't care to know your names," She had one pistol pointed at Sheppard and the other one pointed at the rest of the team, "You need to turn around and go back to where ever it is you came from."
"See what we're looking for is…" McKay started to say until the young woman interrupted him with a shot past Ronon's head hitting a Wraith several feet away.
"It's too late; follow me they'll send more soon." She replied as she turned around and started walking through the town; the team had turned to each other with looks as in asking what to do. As she turned around she said, "Well are you coming or would you rather deal with them?"
Sheppard just shrugged and started to follow behind her as Ronon and Teyla looked around as they walked. All the buildings had been destroyed, some burnt to the ground others had just been banged up a lot. The woman had walked through a broken down door of a barely standing home, she knelt down and pushed on a floor board, it snapped away and showed a number of buttons. Typing in a code she had, everyone just stared not sure what to make of everything, the floor then opened up to show a staircase going down.
"Follow me." The woman had replied as she walked down the stairs motioning everyone to follow.
In a hushed whisper McKay stated, "Is anyone else having a problem with this because I certainly am!"
"Yes but like you said there should be ZPM here and if so she can help us, obviously if she is the only one here then she can help." Sheppard had stated as he walked down following behind her.
McKay had huffed in irritation knowing his fellow team member was right even if he had a bad feeling. He closely followed along as Teyla had follow as Ronon was last making sure they had not been followed. The woman had motioned for them to stand against the wall as she tucked her pistols into her pants typing in a code on the wall next to the stairs that had caused everything to snap back into place making it seem like there had never been stairs let alone an opening where one could have come in at.
There were three hallways, as the woman started to walk down one she started to explain herself, "You need not worry McKay you are safe here they won't find any of you this is a shelter here I have food and water," as they turned into a room she had then walked over to a corner and picked up an item and tossed it at McKay, "I can tell your hungry, I shall return once the wraith have been killed and then you will leave and return to wherever it is you came from as I've already said. And yes Sheppard you may look around there is nothing of value here nor will you find much."
"How did you?" His face showed his question just as everyone else was puzzled.
"You need not worry how I know or why I know." She replied as she started to walk out of the room until Ronon stood in the doorway.
"How can we trust you?" He asked staring into her bright green eyes.
"What else can you do?" She asked back staring into his as he noticed several scars on her chest.
"How did you get scars like those, the wraith don't leave marks." He stated seeing how jagged they looked.
She stepped back so everyone could see as she pulled her shirt down showing her chest, "One is from where the wraith put a device in me, the others are from when I tried to get it out."
"You are a runner like Ronon," Teyla stated not being able to look away from the horrible scars she had on display.
"Why would you be ignorant enough to stay with a runner?" The female runner asked in anger.
"Because the device isn't in me anymore, there is a doctor from where we come from that took it out of me but mine was put in my back. Why would they your chest." Ronon asked with a slightly irritated look from hearing what she said.
"I had been marked when I was but only a child.." She trailed off as the memory came back to her.
"Our doctor can help you if you help us." Sheppard responded as he came closer, "All we want to know is if you have something we need."
"I've hear no such thing as a ZPM," She spat out the words as though they were poisoned. "You want help."
She then looked at McKay as he stood frozen still barely nodding, "Yes…"
"Give me your hand then." She replied as she held out hers waiting for his.
"Is this going to hurt because I'm not really good with pain," McKay had rambled on slowly giving her his hand.
The moment their hands touch the woman had flashes of McKay using the ZPM's throughout the past years they had spent on Atlantis. As soon as their hands had touched she had already let go seeing what it was they had wanted. She knew now what it is they were looking for, she had turned it off years ago since there had been no real reason to power the city she just needed the underground shelter to hold her supplies as she moved around on the planet.
"I know now what you seek, I have one you may take it I don't use it." She smirked as she looked at Sheppard and said. "My name is Riska; don't remember it because you have no need to."
Riska had then walked up to where Ronon was standing, he had stepped to the side slightly letting her past as she then turned and walked down a long path to another room which led to another hallway.
"So you're just going to give it to us?" McKay asked as he walked closely behind her.
"I have no use of it nor any reason to keep it, you may take it and leave and never return."
Sheppard had side stepped McKay as he then had asked, "What about our doctor he can help you."
Riska had stopped and walked into a nearly empty room with a large device in the center, she had touched the center of it just barely. Slowly a ZPM was coming out slowly as McKay's eyes lit up in pure joy hoping it was close if not completely charged of power. As it fully had emerged out of the electronic case she had taken it in her hands and handed it to McKay.
He had already started taking readings of it and to his amazement it was almost fully charged, "I can't believe this this this is incredible I can't believe"
"Now follow me there are only 5 wraith but they are farther enough away I can still get you to your world." Riska replied as the team followed behind her she hurried over to the wall where the stair case had once stood, she had typed in the code causing the stair case to open. "I shall get you to the ring on ancestors we must hurry they're nearly here."
"I'm sorry what?" McKay had asked confused as to how she would know that.
"Run now questions later, you heard the woman let's go." Sheppard said as he followed Riska up the staircase.
The team jogged through the town following Riska, they kept looking out for the wraith knowing that at any moment the wraith could come upon them. As they neared the end of the town, seeing the gate in their midst was when a wraith stunner shot just merely passed Teyla's head.
"McKay! Hurry up and dial the gate, tell Dr. Weir we're coming in hot!" Sheppard called as he started shooting to where it seemed like hundreds of wraith were coming out of the forest.
McKay was dialing the gate as shots sped past his head, his mind raced as he blindly shot around him. Riska stood with the team shooting down many of wraith as they started to surround them. Ronon, Teyla, and Sheppard started to back up to McKay as he had finished screaming into his radio.
"GO GO GO!" Sheppard had told his team as McKay and Teyla followed orders and ran through the gate, "Riska! Come with us we can help you!"
She was still shooting as many more wraith kept coming, "I'll follow behind go!" Looking back at him she had been shot in the leg by a wraith stunner.
"Hold on I got you." Ronon was close enough he grabbed her and started to pull her back towards the gate.
Sheppard had jumped in as he was still shooting screaming for Ronon to hurry up, who was mere inches away from the gate. Still shooting he just had to fall back into the gate with Riska and they would be in Atlantis when he also had been shot in the side with a wraith stunner. Riska could sense that both would not make it if it were left up to Ronon to get them through the gate. She barely stood enough to push Ronon into the gate as his hand reached out to grab her when she fell to the ground with another wraith stunner. As the gate shut Ronon was on the ground of Atlantis knowing that his life had just been saved, he looked down at the ground and banged his fist against the floor wondering what was going to happen to Riska…