SG1 and Atlantis
Carter, Daniel, and Teal'c sat in the briefing room, waiting for General O'Neill to show up. A moment later, he comes strolling in, carrying a folder.
"We'll kids, looks like we have another problem that needs our attention," he announced as he walked from his office to his chair and sat down.
"What's up now?" Daniel asked.
"You remember those CSI's we had around a while back?" Jack asked.
"Yeah. One of them had a Goa'uld in them and we brought them to the Tok'ra to have it removed," Sam said.
"Yup, and then all hell broke loose and they wound up helping us out of it and now have top clearance at Nellis," Jack concluded.
"What about them, O'Neill?" Teal'c asked.
"Well I just got a call from Grissom. Turns out he just got another case that he thinks is a little odd and wants our opinion on. He just faxed over the crime scene pictures," Jack said as he opened the folder and threw a stack of pictures into the center of the table.
Sam, Daniel, and Teal'c all reached for a photo nearest them and began to look it over. Sam was the first to react. "Was this in Vegas?!" she asked shocked.
"Yup. Taken just under an hour ago."
"Um Jack, how'd this happen?" Daniel asked.
"Beats me, but Weir is supposed to be checking in from Atlantis any minute and we're all going to have a little chat with her about these," he said as he picked up one of the photos and shook it.
"I thought that the Wraith do not know the location of Earth," Teal'c said with a raised eyebrow.
"That's what I've been told. But this looks an awfully lot like the photos of the bodies that Atlantis has sent over," Jack answered.
Sam spoke up next. "But sir, how? Not only do the Wraith not know where Earth is, but they have no way of getting here. None of their ships are capable of traveling this far in that amount of time."
"Not to mention that someone here on Earth would probably notice if they saw one walking around. It's not like the Goa'uld or Jaffa who can blend in," Daniel said.
"I don't know! I'm just telling you that there probably is one of these life sucking fugly things wandering around in Vegas for some unknown reason. We need to talk to Weir and find out what the hell has been happening on her end. Maybe we can shed some light onto some of your questions," Jack said.
"When is Atlantis scheduled to make contact?" Daniel asked.
Jack looked down at his watch. "Oh… in aboooouut…" he held up his right hand while he stared at his watch. He held up three fingers, then two, then one, and then threw up his hand as if to cue something.
Nothing happened.
He frowned as the other three glanced around expectedly. Jack lightly tapped his watch and continued to stare at it while he waited. A second later, the alarm sounded as Walter's voice echoed, "Off world activation."
Jack stood up saying, "Late. Alright, let's get this over with," and he walked over to and went down the spiral staircase that led to the control room. Sam, Daniel and Teal'c followed close behind.
"It's Atlantis General," Walter said as Jack came to stand next to him. "Audio and video coming through."
"Stargate command, this is Dr. Weir, please respond." Weir's voice sounded as her video feed appeared on the TV screen.
"Doctor, good to hear from you. How are things?" Jack answered in a cherry yet somehow sarcastic tone.
"General. Thankfully, everything has been fine. Nothing really exciting has been happening around here. We have been taking the last few weeks to finish mapping and exploring Atlantis."
"Good to hear. So no new Wraith activity? Nothing like say oh, someone letting Earth's location slip to one of the bad guys?"
Weir frowned as she said, "No. What's going on?"
"We just received evidence that a Wraith might be here on Earth," Sam answered.
"That's not possible. We have been very careful to keep Earth's location a secret," Weir responded.
"None the less, we just got these pictures today that say otherwise," Jack said as he held up one of the photos of the body.
Weir studied it through her own screen, shocked that something like that could turn up on Earth. "How could this happen?" she said, almost to herself.
"That's what we want to know," Jack said.
"How could a Wraith be on Earth without being noticed?" a voice asked from behind Weir. It was Colonel Sheppard.
"That was my question," Daniel said, waving his hand.
"I think I know how," a quite Scottish voice said from Weir's end.
"Carson?" she said as she turned to face him.
"I have been going over the information that I gathered on the Wraith retro virus that I created and I think that, even in their human form, the Wraith still have the ability to feed."
"What? Why didn't you say this before?" a new voice asked. It was definitely McKay.
"I didn't know until recently," Carson defended. "And I didn't want to say something until I knew for sure."
"But why haven't we seen evidence of this before now?" Weir asked.
"Because they no longer have the memory of feeding or the need to. But if they regained the memory, they wouldn't have to have the need to feed. It would be something like an addiction. We know that Michael began to remember being a Wraith the second time we treated him. It's possible that another would as well," Carson explained.
"But how? In order to stay human, they have to keep being injected by that retro virus," Sheppard said.
"Aye, and I know that I am not missing any," Carson answered.
Someone nervously cleared his throat. "I think I might be able to answer that one."
Weir turned all the way around to stare at Colonel Caldwell who had been quietly waiting to speak with Weir after her communication had finished.
"Colonel?" she asked.
"It was just brought to my attention that several vials of the retro virus are missing from the Daedalus med bay," he said.
"Just come to your attention?" Jack asked.
"Yes. I was about to inform Dr. Weir after she finished here. I didn't think that a missing drug that affected only Wraith was really all that important," Caldwell explained.
"But how did the Wraith get it?" McKay demanded.
"I have no idea," Caldwell answered.
"Right. Well I think that it would be best if we carried this on in person," Jack said. "I know that it would take weeks for the Daedalus to get here so I'm not going to require Caldwell to come through, but Dr. Weir, assemble a team and come on over. We have a lot that we are going to need to discuss and do and we should have the Wraith experts here to go through it. Caldwell, start heading back now. If nothing else, you'll need to bring Weir and the rest back to Atlantis when this is over," Jack ordered.
"Sir, I can send a team over, but I think it would be best if I stay here," Weir said.
"Don't push me Weir," Jack said as he raised a finger to the screen.
"General, Sheppard and his team would be best for this mission as well as Beckett. Caldwell is going to be leaving for Earth. That would leave no one here in charge. If something were to happen while I was gone, there would be no one to take care of things," she argued. "If I send you Sheppard, McKay, and Beckett, you'll have all the expert knowledge that you'll need and I would just be an extra body that you wouldn't need there."
"Fine, send those three. But you better hurry, we have spent a lot of time yakking and the 38 minutes will be up soon," Jack said.
"Yes sir," Weir answered.
A few minutes later, Colonel Sheppard and Dr.s McKay and Beckett stepped though the Atlantis gate and walked into Stargate command on Earth.
"Sheppard! Long time. no see," Jack said as he entered the gate room.
"Yeah, great to see ya again General," Sheppard answered deadpan. "So what mess have you gotten everyone in this time?"
"I have gotten us in? Seems to me that this is yours. Wraith are not my thing."
"Oh that's right, you've got the Goa'uld, I've got the Wraith. Glad we cleared that up," Sheppard said with a slight smile as he walked down the ramp.
"Excuse me. Yeah, how about we get this thing taken care of so we can have a few days off? I'm hoping to have this wrapped up before lunch so all we have to do is wait for the Daedalus to pick us up," McKay said.
"Rodney, there is a Wraith loose on Earth and all you can think about is time off?" Beckett exclaimed.
"What a shocker," Sam sighed as she entered the room.
"Colonel Carter, how are you?" a much more nervous looking yet subdued McKay asked.
Carter rolled her eyes as she ignored the quarry. "I'll take you three to your temporary quarters where you can drop off your stuff. Then we're going to go over everything in the briefing room before we take action," she said as she directed her comments solely to Sheppard.
"Sounds good, let's get going," he answered.
Jack stood leaning against the door frame with his hands stuffed in his pockets as everyone filed out of the room. As McKay, who was last, passed, he shrugged himself off the wall and followed behind, muttering something about saving the world yet again. McKay was sure that somewhere in there he heard a quiet, "Doh!"