Disclaimer: Don't own, and now that that's out of the way, I shall take this space to answer my reviews.
Terreis: Yes, the Wrath of Weir is fearsome indeed. Not many survive. You saw what happened to ponytail dude in Thirty eight minutes. I did not see I, Robot, but I intend to. And yes, Jinto is very cool. And please don't drool on the characters, their dry cleaning bill is high enough without salivary glandular stains. Thank you
Major Sheppard: Actually, it's kinda hard to mix McKay up with Daniel, because first, Daniel is much better looking (Sorry McKay) and he gets into trouble more often. Also, That was misinformation, which I explain in Chapter...four, I think. (checks.) chapter six. Six is when I explain my mistake and apologize.
Damion Starr: Yes, thank you, glad you like it.
Jsgal24JAG: I had no intention of killing off any of the characters. Just inflicting pain. ;)
CylentWind: Thank you. I try.
And now, onto the fic.
The Testing of Wills.
Ch. 9
"So ye really don' have a name? Just a number." asked Carson as he and 26 conversed through the force shield that held her in what was cautiously named the brig. She shrugged one shoulder.
"I never really thought of it that way. At least they weren't calling me 'robot'."
The both of them smirked, looking at Rodney, who looked disgusted at how fast the two of them had become bosom buddies.
"Ugh." he groaned, shaking his head.
After everyone had discovered that the danger was over, there was a great turmoil among the people (hmmm. poetic.) and Weir was currently taking care of that. Carson and Rodney, having been named caretakers of their new...'friend', were in charge of making sure she didn't get into any trouble while Weir was taking care of the mob. The children had been retrieved and Jinto had gone to see Carson and Rodney right away, being wary of 26 as well.
"Doctor Beckett!"
"Jinto!" greeted the doctor, and the boy smiled. "Tha' was very brave, wha' you did."
26 looked interested.
"What'd he do?"
"He crawled through the vents and told Weir to listen for me to say self destruct." Carson said. 26 looked at him and gave a small smile.
"Huh, so that's how you did it." she said, in grudging respect. He shrugged. Rodney looked at him, pondering just how close they had come to dying, and all because the girl robot wanted to know if she was capable of protecting her. The thought was disconcerting. She looked at Jinto, nodding. "I bet you'll make a great warrior someday." she said, and Jinto puffed up with pride. Carson shook his head.
Then 26 leaned against the wall and propped her leg on her already bent knee, hands resting behind her head, eyes closed.
"You did god, kid, real good." she said, smirking. She had a mobster voice on now, and Rodney looked at her incredulously. "But as long as I'm around, you'll always be second best, see?"
Carson laughed so hard that for a moment, they thought they may need one of the nurses.
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Weir came in and found that Carson and Rodney were staring into space, probably bored out of their minds. Rodney was the first to see her.
"Elizabeth. Hey." he said. Looking at 26 he gave a short whistle. "Ready to talk, Bugsy? the Warden's here."
"Never, see?" she said, without opening her eyes. A smirk curled itself into the corner of her mouth, and Weir gave an amused smile.
"So this is our troublemaker?"
"That I am, Elizabeth."
"Well, you know who we are. What's your name?"
"26."
"That's an odd name." responded the director of operations.
"Thank you."
Carson chuckled.
"So, the Wraith attacked your planet?"
"That's correct."
"How'd you escape?"
"I accessed the central computer from my cell and downloaded the mainframe into my storage center. Then I opened the door and made my way to the Stargate. First I procured a cloaking device and checked on my brothers and sisters to see if they were okay. Some had already escaped. 28, 17, 3, 2, and 1 I think. The rest were dead or missing. I watched a Wraith attempt to suck energy from 7. She activated her personal self destruct and destroyed it. It was unfortunate that it had not been 13, he could have rebuilt himself. But then she always had been unlucky."
"Like the replicators from our galaxy." said Rodney.
"That's where the Pegasus learned that particular trick. I'm pretty sure that 13 got out okay. He's always had the best luck out of all of us."
"Ironic." Carson put in.
"Yes, I've read your history." 26 said, smirking.
"What next?" asked Weir, getting back on subject
"I tried to find the Pegasus. When I did...I heard something unpleasant. They were discussing giving me to the Wraith. I have the biggest personal self destruct, they wanted to try to blow them all up at once."
Rodney sat up and looked at her, as did Carson.
"What'd you do?" asked Rodney.
"I didn't want to die, so I left. When they attempted to order me to my doom, I deactivated that circuit in my mind, dialing the gate and walking through after programming the Stargate to shut down immediately after I stepped through."
"You can do that?" asked Weir, and 26's eyes opened, looking at her.
"I'm a robot."
"Right."
"Anyway, I wound up on a planet, where I followed Sheppard and his team around for a while, and then came back with them. And the rest, as they say is history."
There was silence for a while and the humans mulled the information over in their minds. Then Weir looked at her and furrowed her brow.
"26, why were you in a cell in the first place?"
"I could tell you that it was what our sleeping quarters were called, my no- lying circuit has been deactivated, but it was because I lost my mind."
Rodney raised an eyebrow and looked at Carson, who was sharing the same confused look. Lost her mind? Figuratively or literally? And what exactly did that mean for a robot?
"When you say that, you mean..."
"That I went crazy. I injured 4 a little when he tried to relieve me of my post for the night. I didn't see the point. Robots don't need rest. We just recharge. So when I said no, he tried to remove me by force and I yanked out a handful of circuitry. I went bonkers. Stark raving mad, insane. Pick your idiom. They saw me as a danger, so they locked me up." she said, getting up and stretching.
Weir was still confused as she walked a little closer to the force shield containing the crazy robot.
"Then how'd you get out of your cell?"
"I interfaced with the computer and told it to let me out." she said, smiling, with her shark-like teeth. Weir's eyebrows shot upwards in shock.
"You mean that you could have freed yourself at anytime from this and you haven't?" asked the shocked astrophysicist. 26 shrugged.
"If that's not a gesture to be taken in good faith, I don't know what is." she said. "I really wasn't going to hurt you. I just wanted to see how far you would go to defeat an enemy."
"Ye could have asked." Carson suggested, and 26 shook her head, the smile disappearing.
"I had to be absolutely, one-hundred-percent-without-a-shade-of-a-doubt sure." she responded. "If you hadn't given it your all, I would have simply opened the wormhole back to your planet and sent you through with orders to come back when you were ready to make every sacrifice to stop an enemy." she explained. Weir stared, incredulously. at the young girl robot's revelation.
"So this really was just a test?"
"Yes." she affirmed. Then, as an afterthought, "Sorry if I alarmed you."
"What about Aidan?"
"Suspended sleep." she said. "When he mixed the technology and water, the shock went through him like usual, but also sent very clear images to his brain, and if I didn't send a wireless signal to keep him asleep, he would have ruined the test. He woke up right after I announced that you had passed the test, unharmed except for a minor headache."
"There you are!"
Major Sheppard stormed into the brig and stood face to shield with the robot who had scared so many people.
"You're the one responsible for this mess." he said, low and threatening.
"Yes." 26 answered, leaning her hand against the side of the cell. Carson watched her carefully and was disturbed to notice that her fingers had begun to pulse lightly.
"You have brought on mass mayhem, people want to leave because of you. Do you have any idea what that means for this community?" he growled. She still remained stoic, looking him in the eye.
"Less chance of a completely beneficial alliance with other civilizations who are friends with the Athosians. And even less chance of you being more than friends with---"
"Hey!" Rodney said, interrupting her. She and Sheppard looked at him. "26. let's not discuss peoples' love lives, okay?"
"Why not?"
"Cause it's rude and I asked you not to." Rodney replied. She rolled her eyes and then looked at Sheppard.
"You're rude, and I don't like you."
"I—I'm rude?" he asked, incredulously.
"Yes. I tested you, you won, it's over, and you're in here yelling at me for something that's past. You could learn a lot from your Buddhist monks." she said. He stared at her, open mouthed, while Weir, Rodney and Carson shared looks and noticed that Sheppard was not noticing how badly the force shield was fritzing. Rodney looked at Weir and she shook her head, actually curious as to how this was going to play out. "You're pretty tough when there's a force field between us, I wonder just how brave you'd be if I turned it off."
And with that, the shield shut down completely, and she smiled at him, red- orange eyes glinting mischievously.
A/N: muahahahahaha. I think it's plain to see that Sheppard and 26 don't like each other. Also, she gets a name in later chapters, so start suggesting, people. The name I like the best is the one she'll get.
Terreis: Yes, the Wrath of Weir is fearsome indeed. Not many survive. You saw what happened to ponytail dude in Thirty eight minutes. I did not see I, Robot, but I intend to. And yes, Jinto is very cool. And please don't drool on the characters, their dry cleaning bill is high enough without salivary glandular stains. Thank you
Major Sheppard: Actually, it's kinda hard to mix McKay up with Daniel, because first, Daniel is much better looking (Sorry McKay) and he gets into trouble more often. Also, That was misinformation, which I explain in Chapter...four, I think. (checks.) chapter six. Six is when I explain my mistake and apologize.
Damion Starr: Yes, thank you, glad you like it.
Jsgal24JAG: I had no intention of killing off any of the characters. Just inflicting pain. ;)
CylentWind: Thank you. I try.
And now, onto the fic.
The Testing of Wills.
Ch. 9
"So ye really don' have a name? Just a number." asked Carson as he and 26 conversed through the force shield that held her in what was cautiously named the brig. She shrugged one shoulder.
"I never really thought of it that way. At least they weren't calling me 'robot'."
The both of them smirked, looking at Rodney, who looked disgusted at how fast the two of them had become bosom buddies.
"Ugh." he groaned, shaking his head.
After everyone had discovered that the danger was over, there was a great turmoil among the people (hmmm. poetic.) and Weir was currently taking care of that. Carson and Rodney, having been named caretakers of their new...'friend', were in charge of making sure she didn't get into any trouble while Weir was taking care of the mob. The children had been retrieved and Jinto had gone to see Carson and Rodney right away, being wary of 26 as well.
"Doctor Beckett!"
"Jinto!" greeted the doctor, and the boy smiled. "Tha' was very brave, wha' you did."
26 looked interested.
"What'd he do?"
"He crawled through the vents and told Weir to listen for me to say self destruct." Carson said. 26 looked at him and gave a small smile.
"Huh, so that's how you did it." she said, in grudging respect. He shrugged. Rodney looked at him, pondering just how close they had come to dying, and all because the girl robot wanted to know if she was capable of protecting her. The thought was disconcerting. She looked at Jinto, nodding. "I bet you'll make a great warrior someday." she said, and Jinto puffed up with pride. Carson shook his head.
Then 26 leaned against the wall and propped her leg on her already bent knee, hands resting behind her head, eyes closed.
"You did god, kid, real good." she said, smirking. She had a mobster voice on now, and Rodney looked at her incredulously. "But as long as I'm around, you'll always be second best, see?"
Carson laughed so hard that for a moment, they thought they may need one of the nurses.
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Weir came in and found that Carson and Rodney were staring into space, probably bored out of their minds. Rodney was the first to see her.
"Elizabeth. Hey." he said. Looking at 26 he gave a short whistle. "Ready to talk, Bugsy? the Warden's here."
"Never, see?" she said, without opening her eyes. A smirk curled itself into the corner of her mouth, and Weir gave an amused smile.
"So this is our troublemaker?"
"That I am, Elizabeth."
"Well, you know who we are. What's your name?"
"26."
"That's an odd name." responded the director of operations.
"Thank you."
Carson chuckled.
"So, the Wraith attacked your planet?"
"That's correct."
"How'd you escape?"
"I accessed the central computer from my cell and downloaded the mainframe into my storage center. Then I opened the door and made my way to the Stargate. First I procured a cloaking device and checked on my brothers and sisters to see if they were okay. Some had already escaped. 28, 17, 3, 2, and 1 I think. The rest were dead or missing. I watched a Wraith attempt to suck energy from 7. She activated her personal self destruct and destroyed it. It was unfortunate that it had not been 13, he could have rebuilt himself. But then she always had been unlucky."
"Like the replicators from our galaxy." said Rodney.
"That's where the Pegasus learned that particular trick. I'm pretty sure that 13 got out okay. He's always had the best luck out of all of us."
"Ironic." Carson put in.
"Yes, I've read your history." 26 said, smirking.
"What next?" asked Weir, getting back on subject
"I tried to find the Pegasus. When I did...I heard something unpleasant. They were discussing giving me to the Wraith. I have the biggest personal self destruct, they wanted to try to blow them all up at once."
Rodney sat up and looked at her, as did Carson.
"What'd you do?" asked Rodney.
"I didn't want to die, so I left. When they attempted to order me to my doom, I deactivated that circuit in my mind, dialing the gate and walking through after programming the Stargate to shut down immediately after I stepped through."
"You can do that?" asked Weir, and 26's eyes opened, looking at her.
"I'm a robot."
"Right."
"Anyway, I wound up on a planet, where I followed Sheppard and his team around for a while, and then came back with them. And the rest, as they say is history."
There was silence for a while and the humans mulled the information over in their minds. Then Weir looked at her and furrowed her brow.
"26, why were you in a cell in the first place?"
"I could tell you that it was what our sleeping quarters were called, my no- lying circuit has been deactivated, but it was because I lost my mind."
Rodney raised an eyebrow and looked at Carson, who was sharing the same confused look. Lost her mind? Figuratively or literally? And what exactly did that mean for a robot?
"When you say that, you mean..."
"That I went crazy. I injured 4 a little when he tried to relieve me of my post for the night. I didn't see the point. Robots don't need rest. We just recharge. So when I said no, he tried to remove me by force and I yanked out a handful of circuitry. I went bonkers. Stark raving mad, insane. Pick your idiom. They saw me as a danger, so they locked me up." she said, getting up and stretching.
Weir was still confused as she walked a little closer to the force shield containing the crazy robot.
"Then how'd you get out of your cell?"
"I interfaced with the computer and told it to let me out." she said, smiling, with her shark-like teeth. Weir's eyebrows shot upwards in shock.
"You mean that you could have freed yourself at anytime from this and you haven't?" asked the shocked astrophysicist. 26 shrugged.
"If that's not a gesture to be taken in good faith, I don't know what is." she said. "I really wasn't going to hurt you. I just wanted to see how far you would go to defeat an enemy."
"Ye could have asked." Carson suggested, and 26 shook her head, the smile disappearing.
"I had to be absolutely, one-hundred-percent-without-a-shade-of-a-doubt sure." she responded. "If you hadn't given it your all, I would have simply opened the wormhole back to your planet and sent you through with orders to come back when you were ready to make every sacrifice to stop an enemy." she explained. Weir stared, incredulously. at the young girl robot's revelation.
"So this really was just a test?"
"Yes." she affirmed. Then, as an afterthought, "Sorry if I alarmed you."
"What about Aidan?"
"Suspended sleep." she said. "When he mixed the technology and water, the shock went through him like usual, but also sent very clear images to his brain, and if I didn't send a wireless signal to keep him asleep, he would have ruined the test. He woke up right after I announced that you had passed the test, unharmed except for a minor headache."
"There you are!"
Major Sheppard stormed into the brig and stood face to shield with the robot who had scared so many people.
"You're the one responsible for this mess." he said, low and threatening.
"Yes." 26 answered, leaning her hand against the side of the cell. Carson watched her carefully and was disturbed to notice that her fingers had begun to pulse lightly.
"You have brought on mass mayhem, people want to leave because of you. Do you have any idea what that means for this community?" he growled. She still remained stoic, looking him in the eye.
"Less chance of a completely beneficial alliance with other civilizations who are friends with the Athosians. And even less chance of you being more than friends with---"
"Hey!" Rodney said, interrupting her. She and Sheppard looked at him. "26. let's not discuss peoples' love lives, okay?"
"Why not?"
"Cause it's rude and I asked you not to." Rodney replied. She rolled her eyes and then looked at Sheppard.
"You're rude, and I don't like you."
"I—I'm rude?" he asked, incredulously.
"Yes. I tested you, you won, it's over, and you're in here yelling at me for something that's past. You could learn a lot from your Buddhist monks." she said. He stared at her, open mouthed, while Weir, Rodney and Carson shared looks and noticed that Sheppard was not noticing how badly the force shield was fritzing. Rodney looked at Weir and she shook her head, actually curious as to how this was going to play out. "You're pretty tough when there's a force field between us, I wonder just how brave you'd be if I turned it off."
And with that, the shield shut down completely, and she smiled at him, red- orange eyes glinting mischievously.
A/N: muahahahahaha. I think it's plain to see that Sheppard and 26 don't like each other. Also, she gets a name in later chapters, so start suggesting, people. The name I like the best is the one she'll get.
