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From the star erupted a solar flare shooting upwards. The lance of burning power tore through space towards the two ships. The full force of the flare hit and engulfed the mothership, her weakened shields collapsing under the fury of the sun's power. The flare continued onwards, past the now collapsed shields and into the belly of the beast. The solar flare was small, with little energy to carry it forwards and to maintain its intensity, but what intensity it had was enough. The blast melted the underside of the ship and the superweapon exploded as the power source was hit and went critical. The ship was racked by a chain reaction of explosions that spread from the centre of the ship and erupted across her hull.
When the explosions had died down all that was left was a burning wreck in space that had once been a fully functioning behemoth. Across the entire ship there wasn't a single spark of life in any of its systems. Every power conduit across the entire ship had ruptured which was the source of the explosions that had rocked the ship. The ship was even now breaking up, entire sections being wrenched from the hull as the superstructure succumbed to the changing pressures caused by the vacuum of space sucking out the air through the breaches in the hull.
"Rodney, there is no way you should have been able to pull that off. So answer me this, how did that happen?"
Rodney sighed.
"Well, the game is kind of based on us in that it reacts the way you expect it to react. So if you expect something to work then it should work. I expected the plan to work so it seemed to work, it's not like there is any science available to it to prove me wrong is there."
"Rodney that is the wackiest plan I have ever heard."
"Yeah I know."
"Well done by the way."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome buddy."
"Okay boys time to get serious. Welcome to virtual hell."
Sheppard turned to see the virus's avatar once again standing in the middle of the bridge
"So what you're saying is that you have been failing in your programming to come up with something we would find difficult to beat."
No matter what the situation Sheppard would still try to antagonise the villain. Rodney was beginning to wonder if it came with the territory. It appeared to be a popular gimmick among the leaders of flagship teams. It certainly seemed to be having an affected, the avatar was practically snarling as it spoke next.
"No what I am saying is that compared to what you faced so far this is going to be a picnic, and its about to get worse for the good doctor. In more ways than one, unfortunately for you."
Rodney could hardly miss the implication or contain his anger.
"What are you planning?"
Sheppard chose that moment to cut in, in defence of his friend.
"And why Rodney? Why not try taking me on?"
"It's simple. Basic military strategy says take out the head and the body will wither and die. If Doctor McKay cannot come up with a plan then you are doomed. Thankfully his memories provide the perfect scenario to destroy him. Now then enjoy."
New scenario beginning.
The setting reset. They were still on the bridge but everything had been repaired to pristine condition, like the ship was brand new.
"Rodney focus, don't let that thing get to you. We just need to get through this okay."
Rodney sighed.
"Yeah I got it."
"Right. Now then what have we got?"
"The ships perfectly intact and there are no ships out there."
"What nothing, really?"
"Not a thing. In fact we appear to be floating in space nowhere near any star systems."
"Is it just me or does this situation scream, we're missing something? What about on the ship itself we got any crew aboard."
"I'm picking up one life sign roaming the corridors. There are a few dozen in the left hangar bay though."
"Isn't that hangar usually empty?"
"Yeah it is. Hang on I'll bring it up on the monitors."
The view of the hanger came up. The hanger itself was relatively empty. Except for the single Wraith transport craft, from which a number of Wraith drones were already disembarking.
"Rodney, please tell me that virus can't actually fill this ship with Wraith."
Rodney's face was grim.
"I really hate to say this but it is possible for this situation to occur in reality. Hell it has happened for crying out loud. Which means the damn thing can make us live through it."
"I don't suppose that we can just beam them all out into space."
"No that transport is sending out a jamming signal, we couldn't beam anything to or from any part of the ship."
"Okay then first stop is the armoury and the second stop is to find that lone crewmen, something's fishy about this whole situation."
With that the two of them got up and ran for the door, time was of the essence.
A little while later the two of them were roaming the hall ways. Fully kitted out in combat gear and armed with P-90's, pistols and even a few stun pistols, although they doubted they would be using them much, they were as ready as they could get.
John was on point keeping an eye out for hostiles. Rodney meanwhile had a life signs detector in his hands and was searching for the unknown crew member.
"Anything yet Rodney?"
"Nothing yet…wait, I'm getting something. Up ahead and take a left there's a life sign, no others nearby by, save for us. I think it's our mystery crew member."
The two of them crept along the corridor, weapons raised just in case whoever was round the corridor was a hostile. When they finally turned the corner though what they saw was definitely not a Wraith.
"Rodney?"
"Doc?"
"Jennifer?"
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