Chapter 02: Family Reunion

A few months later and things had changed they hadn't seen the wraith in a few weeks and had managed to stumble across an unknown planet as they searched for Lt Ford who had become addicted to the wraith enzyme. Major Sheppard had become Lt Colonel and Doctor Carson Beckett had temporarily joined his team. Atlantis had gained a new team under the command of a Major Evan Lorne.

"Doctor Weir, permission to take Captain Carter-O'Neill to the planet," Major Lorne requested looking directly at her as he spoke. "Colonel Sheppard has requested her and the Doc,"

"Why?" Elizabeth questioned looking to him before she looked away for a moment. "John," she questioned into her communication device.

'Elizabeth,'

"Why do you want Carson and Kali?"

'She knows why, as for Carson we have a situation that requires a doctor,' John paused before he continued and told her exactly why. By that time Major Lorne had already taken them both through the gate.

"Just be careful,"

On the other side of the gate Lt Col Sheppard was waiting for Major Evan Lorne, Doctor Carson Beckett and Captain Carter-O'Neill. She knew exactly why he had asked for her, as did Major Lorne as he had been informed by both Lt Col Sheppard and Brig Gen O'Neill.

"You know you will have to convince him of who you are," John told her as soon as they were through. "This way, and Doc don't do anything until she talks to him,"

"I know John, I know," Kali replied looking around as she followed close behind aiming her weapon into the open so as not to be surprised by anything.

"Excuse me?" Carson questioned, uncertain as to why he was there.

"Doc, there's a man we need you to operate on before we can take him to Atlantis with us." John told him as they came to a stop and he motioned for them to move through the rocks. "He and Teyla are in the cave."

"Ronon, it's your little sister," Kali said as she walked through the rocks into the cave. She had handed her weapons to them before she entered.

"Kali?" Teyla questioned, as she didn't know the entire story of the young Satedan.

"Teyla, I'm Satedan. I was born on Sateda. Ronon Dex is my older brother," she answered as she walked straight up to the tall dread-locked man standing with Teyla at gunpoint. "Put the gun down,"

"No, how do I know you're who you say you are?" Ronon asked looking down at the young girl before he looked towards Sheppard, Lorne and Beckett.

Kali took off her military jacket to reveal a scar that spread down her left arm. "You gave me this scar when I was 12, we were practising the moves that our grandfather taught you," she said as she showed him exactly where the scar was hoping that he would realise that she was telling the truth.

"Little sister," Ronon said as he slowly lowered his gun and moved to give the young girl a hug. "I thought I lost you forever,"

"Well you didn't, and you won't. Now sit your ass down and let Doctor Beckett examine you," Kali said with a small laugh as she hugged him back. "The Colonel tells me that you're a runner,"

"Can you get it out?" Ronon questioned as Kali motioned for Doctor Beckett to come in with his medical equipment.

"Aye, let me see," Carson said as he held one of the ancients devices and scanned Ronon to see exactly where it was. "You didn't try to remove this yourself did you?"

"Yeah, I tried once with a mirror. Couldn't quite reach. Most of it's from two different doctors." Ronon answered causing Teyla and Kali to look at one another.

"The wraith did this to him, it's a tracking device." Kali paused remembering the stories that she'd heard as a child. "Those who are strong are chosen to be set free after being implanted by the device,"

"They can track us anywhere and soon they will be here,"

"Doc you better hurry,"

Carson knew what he had to do but wasn't quite sure if it would work or not. He looked at Ronon and then at the two women. Something about him had changed in the last eight years since she had seen him.

After a couple of minutes and Carson had removed the tracking device handing it to Kali to look at and disable so that the the wraith would be unable to track him back to Atlantis. Ronon could not believe that his sister had found him nor that she was part of a military, a life he had not wanted her to live. Next thing they knew they were on the way back to Atlantis.

"Why?" he questioned, looking at her as they walked into the gate room from the planet. "Why come back?"

"What sort of question is that, you're my brother and a part of me was missing," she answered, looking at him before she looked at Doctor Weir whom was waiting for the team.

"What happened? Was it Lieutenant Ford?" Doctor Weir questioned, looking at John, Evan, and the rest of the team.

"It's a long story, and yes it was Ford but not the Ford that we know." John told her as he looked at Elizabeth and then at Kali. "And Kali has something to say,"

"Elizabeth, this is Ronon Dex. He's my older brother and a Specialist in the Satedan military. Yes I was born in the Pegasus Galaxy..." she paused as all eyes fell upon her. "Why do you think I know so much about it? Sateda was my home planet. Colonel Carter and General O'Neill adopted me when I walked through the gate that you, Ronon sent me through,"

"Apparently it was only a one off when the SGC tried to dial back in they couldn't establish a connection so she was stuck on Earth," John told them, he knew a little about her history after having multiple talks with her. "Anything else?"

"I came through the ancestral rings when I was 15, before Ronon became a runner for the wraith. I was just as surprised as the rest of you. What you don't know is the scars that I have, the ones that Doctor Beckett has often questioned me about, they came from him...we used to spar as kids, I was the only girl that would even attempt to try," Kali said, it explained the few scars that she had gained before she was sent to Earth.

After a few months and Ronon was a part of the SG AR1 team he had replaced Lt Ford. Kali had gone between going with Evan's team and with John's. As neither team knew who would need her most. More often than not she went with John's team as she was able to get Ronon to think straight and not fire his weapon.

"Ronon listen to me!" Teyla exclaimed as they ran upon a wee bit of trouble. "Stop! Kali your assistance would be great right about now,"

"Give me a moment!" Kali yelled back, she had to figure out how to stop what was happening to her brother without endangering the rest of the team. "Ronon, stop. I know you can hear me,"

"You're not talking to Ronon," Ronon said, causing everyone to look at him and then at McKay.

"Don't look at McKay. Yes I know he's had another being inside him, but as has Elizabeth and Sheppard," Kali said taking a deep breath as she had another look at the statistics on her pad. "Just how did this happen?" she questioned as she realised what had happened. "Wait, this is nothing like what happened to McKay, Elizabeth and Sheppard,"

"Why not?" John questioned, and then looked at McKay who had a rather similar look of confusion on his face.

"Because, just because." Kali stopped talking to them and then started with Ronon again. "Ronon, listen to me. You have to stay in control,"

"Kali help me," Ronon said, this time the entire team knew they were talking to Ronon as he would only ever ask her to do the helping.

"I'm trying, just stay in control it's your body," she told him, Teyla looked a little puzzled and then started to realise what was going on.

"Kali is whatever is happening to Ronon happening because of what he's holding?" Teyla questioned, causing McKay to pick up one of the scanners and point it towards Ronon.

McKay scanned Ronon whilst he looked at the ancient scanner, Kali looked over the statistics that kept changing on her pad. Neither could work out just how the apparition had entered his body as they hadn't seen any flashes of light or convulsions.

"This, this is rather puzzling," McKay said as he looked at the results on the scanner. "I don't know what I'm even looking at,"

"What do you mean you don't know?" John questioned looking at him, as it was the first time that he had admitted defeat.

"Teyla's right, I'm getting weird readings coming off of that thing," Kali said as she showed McKay the readings that she had and looked at the scanner. "One of those life forces is Ronon's the other is coming from that thing," she pointed to the oddly shaped device that Ronon was aiming at them.

"How weird?" Sheppard and Teyla questioned moving slowly as they noticed that Ronon followed them when they moved.

"Very, just don't touch that with your bare hands. Ronon, you have to trust me on this," McKay said, even though he wasn't certain exactly how they would help him.

Whatever it was that had a hold of Ronon was still trying to take control of his body and shoot them. McKay headed back to the village with Teyla to see what it was that Ronon was holding to see if the villagers could shed some light on it.

"Colonel Sheppard, has something gone wrong?" Elizabeth's voice sounded in his ear as they were contacted through the Stargate.

"Elizabeth we have a slight delay, and you might want to send Lorne's team," John responded looking to Kali to give a little more information on what they were dealing with.

"It seems as though some of the artefacts on this planet are shall we say possessed and picking them up leads to trouble," Kali said pausing to look at Ronon and then at John. "Before you ask it wasn't Doctor McKay that got himself in trouble. From what I can gather all you have to do is touch one of the artefacts and it takes over,"

'Rodney, Teyla don't touch anything,' John said into his comm as Elizabeth got ready to send another team through the gate.

"John, I'm sending Lorne's team in now," Elizabeth paused before she realised what Kali had said to her. "What do you mean it wasn't Rodney this time?" she questioned, it was rare for Rodney not to be the one touching things.

"Well to be honest, we don't really know how it happened. Can we get into this later?" John questioned, as Evan and his team arrived through the gate.

Evan looked at John and then at Ronon and Kali as the rest of his team circled them and had their weapons aimed at Ronon. Kali looked to them and shook her head at Evan.

"Evan, tell your men to stand down," John said, as the young girl continued to go over the information that she was still gathering from all the equipment that they were using.

"We have to some how get that, whatever it is away from him and into one of the containers," she paused before she continued to speak. "Might I add, without touching it at all. Ronon, I know you can hear me and this is going to hurt," she took a deep breath and aimed her wooden katana at the object and his hand.

"What are you doing?" John hissed looking at the young girl as she swung the katana at Ronon hoping that it would work.

"Trying to get the grip to loosen, what does it look like?" Kali needed to concentrate if she was to hit Ronon's hand at the correct angle in order for him to drop the weapon.

Ronon seemed to be the most protective over Teyla and Kali, not caring as much about John and Rodney, but still caring enough to get them out of trouble.